According to intelligence emerging news, the field of humanoid robots welcomes a new player. Founded in June 2024, "Dongyi Technology" recently completed tens of millions of yuan in angel round financing, led by Fengrui Capital and Z Fund, with multiple well-known investment institutions following suit. The company was founded by Ren Xiaoyu, who has extensive experience in legged humanoid robots and reinforcement learning development, and has held key technical positions at UBTECH and Fourier Intelligence.
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Currently, humanoid robots have shown impressive performance in executing single tasks, but there are still challenges in achieving rich and generalized movements, which limits their potential to integrate with multi-modal large models. The industry generally adopts the method of introducing an intermediate layer between the large model and the robot itself, but this requires the preset of a large number of sub-tasks, which is a huge workload.
Dongyi Technology is committed to breaking through this bottleneck, developing a new behavioral motion AI agent and a new generation of humanoid robot bodies. The company's innovation aims to make robots more friendly to multi-modal large models, achieving the goal of "what you think is what you do." They also plan to further enhance the generalization capabilities of robots through imitation learning and reinforcement learning.
In terms of product roadmap, Dongyi Technology is expected to release a humanoid robot demo based on behavioral motion AI agents next year, and will focus on labor-intensive industries such as social services and manufacturing in the future. Ren Xiaoyu stated that the company is dedicated to improving the generalization capabilities of robots, promoting AI from the virtual world to the physical world, and realizing the vision of "Robot for AI".
This financing and technological breakthrough marks a new progress in the field of humanoid robots, and is expected to promote the deep integration of AI with the real world, bringing revolutionary changes to multiple industries.