Place an order through the applet, enter the last four digits of your mobile phone number, and get into a driverless taxi...... On June 30, the reporter explored the unmanned driving experience activity of the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in advance. During the World Artificial Intelligence Conference from July 4 to 7, 2024, the public will have the opportunity to experience the cutting-edge technology of robotaxis (Robotaxi) first-hand.
Experience the future of mobility for yourself
On the same day, the reporter took a driverless taxi that experienced SAIC Saike's intelligence.
Similar to ordinary taxi software, the reporter opens the "Xiao Kelai" WeChat applet, places an order after locating the main Robotaxi station, tracks the location of the vehicle in real time, and then enters the mobile phone number after getting on the bus and starts the trip with four digits. There is no one in the driver's seat in the taxi, and the safety officer sits in the co-pilot.
"Xiao Kelai" WeChat mini program taxi page. Labor Daily reporter Gong Junqi photography
The experience activity is centered on the East Area of the AI Track (unmanned driving) in Area B of the Expo Park, No. 997 Xueye Road, Pudong New Area, and can be tested on many open roads such as Xueye 2nd Road, Expo Hall Road, Zhoujiadu Road, Expo Avenue, Shangnan Road, etc., with a total mileage of 10 kilometers and 18 intersections.
According to reports, SAIKE Intelligent has completed the development and implementation of three generations of L4 intelligent driving on the L4 level autonomous driving project, and realized the operation of Kaecheng in Shanghai, Suzhou and other places. At present, SAILCO has formed the largest L4 Robotaxi fleet in Shanghai, completed more than 300,000 orders, and obtained the first batch of commercial operation licenses, the first batch of driverless test licenses, and the first airport special line test license in Shanghai. In 2024, SAILCO will cooperate with Zhiji Automobile to pass the first batch of intelligent networked vehicle access and road access pilots.
In addition, in order to improve the convenience of the experience, the organizing committee has set up the Robotaxi main venue station in the event base camp, as well as the Expo Center Station, China Art Palace Station, and InterContinental Hotel Station. In the experience activity, in addition to the dynamic unmanned shuttle area set up in the waiting area of the main venue station, the audience can also make an independent reservation for the corresponding vehicle type at each station by scanning the QR code for Robotaxi experience.
The humanoid robot "Qinglong" will be open sourced
In May this year, the country's first national and local humanoid robot innovation center (hereinafter referred to as the national and local center) settled in Pudong. The reporter learned from the national and local center that the first full-size humanoid robot open source public version machine "Qinglong" in China will be released at WAIC to lower the threshold for humanoid robots to land in the manufacturing industry. In the future, it will gather industry forces, iterate new versions every year and continue to open source.
On the same day, the reporter came to the second floor of the National Land Center and saw this humanoid robot that will be open source for the whole system to benchmark the functional indicators of biological humans. With a height of more than 180 cm and a weight of 82 kg, the "Blue Dragon" with a highly bionic torso configuration is holding its head down, using its nimble hands to pick up and stack randomly placed plastic cups.
"At the conference in July, we will also show a combination with a large model that tells it which one to grab through a human voice, or to put something on top of or to the left of another thing." Xing Boyang, director of the R&D system of the National Land Center, said, "It can be seen that its dynamic grasping speed is still relatively sensitive, but there are still many details that need to be further optimized. ”
"Green Dragon" is grabbing a cup. Labor Daily reporter Gong Junqi photography
It is reported that the "Qinglong" supports multi-modal maneuvering, multi-modal perception, multi-modal interaction and multi-modal control, with up to 43 active degrees of freedom throughout the body, a maximum joint peak torque of 400N.m, and a computing power of 400TOPs. "One arm has 7 degrees of freedom, the end finger has 6 degrees of freedom, and the fingertips also have tactile sensors, so it can complete the judgment of grasping, so that it will have a force adaptation when grabbing the cup, without pinching the cup or damaging its fingers." Xing Boyang introduced.
"Qinglong" also has a high-mobility lower limb walking configuration and a lightweight and high-precision upper limb operation configuration, supporting four major movement functions such as fast walking, agile obstacle avoidance, steady uphill and downhill and anti-impact interference, which is an ideal carrier for the development of general artificial intelligence software and hardware.
At present, the national and local center is accelerating the construction of a training center, which can accommodate 100 humanoid robot training in the first phase, and plans to accommodate 1,000 humanoid robots for simultaneous training by 2027, so as to promote the application of humanoid robots in more real-world scenarios.
In addition, the National Land Center has also set up a humanoid robot industry fund to form a capital-boosted industrial synergy through the operation of the capital side, and promote the establishment and development of the industry's ecological industrial chain, with an estimated total amount of more than 10 billion yuan, and the first phase of 2 billion.
The header picture shows the reporter sitting in a driverless taxi. Labor Daily reporter Gong Junqi photography