VMR Unveils OmniHead Robot Module at Big Data Expo

According to Communist Party of China Guizhou Gui’an New Area, regionally produced robots drew massive crowds at the China International Big Data Industry Expo in Guizhou, which ended on Saturday, because the province’s rising computing {industry} is poised to speed up improvement within the robotics sector.

“We have achieved panoramic visible notion and may autonomously keep away from obstacles in three-dimensional environments due to our long-term work within the visible area,” stated Guo Di, R&D director at VMR Technology Co.

Based in Gui’an New Area — now a nationwide computing powerhouse — VMR markets robots designed for manufacturing and logistics and focuses on machine imaginative and prescient. The firm’s newly launched OmniHead module, paired with 3D sensing, stitches collectively a panoramic picture that provides humanoid robots the knowledge they want for autonomous operation. 

“Many firms promote robotic elements, akin to joints and chassis, however few have tackled the top module. We are already in talks with a number of companions,” Guo stated.

VMR moved to Gui’an at the tip of final yr to faucet the world’s computing energy potential. On Aug 18, the agency unveiled OmniHead, a humanoid head module with in depth open interfaces that may fuse visible, voice and different information streams. It may be tailored to quite a lot of humanoid platforms.

“Globally, the robotics {industry} is transferring towards embodied intelligence. That maturation requires huge computing assets for coaching, and Gui’an has that capability,” Guo stated.

As information and AI industries in Gui’an mature, extra high-tech producers are settling there. To date, the zone has attracted 26 information facilities. The Gui’an information middle cluster now exceeds 90 EFLOPs of computing capability, with clever computing accounting for greater than 98 p.c of that.

One EFLOP represents a supercomputing efficiency of 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second.

Projects from tech companies together with Huawei, Apple, Tencent and NetEase are continuing. Officials stated they’ll construct an information ecosystem centered on high-quality information units, develop industry-scale AI fashions, promote real-world functions and drive development in superior manufacturing.

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