A major breakthrough has occurred in the field of robotics! Star Motion Era recently launched its self-developed end-to-end native robotic model ERA-42, which is combined with its self-developed dexterous hand, Star Motion XHAND1. For the first time, this allows a single embodied large model to drive the dexterous hand to complete over 100 complex and delicate tasks. These tasks include picking up screws and fastening them with a drill, hammering nails with a hammer, and aligning a cup to pour water, marking a new level of robotic intelligence.
The strength of ERA-42 lies in its exceptional versatility and dexterous operation capabilities. It can learn new tasks in a short time without any pre-programmed skills. By collecting a small amount of data, ERA-42 can master new skills in less than two hours and continue to learn more new tasks quickly.
Star Motion Era believes that embodied large models are key to unlocking general embodied intelligence. An excellent embodied large model needs to possess three core elements: First, it should unify a model that generalizes various tasks and environments by integrating multimodal information such as vision, language, touch, and body posture to achieve generalization capabilities across different tasks and environments; Second, it should be end-to-end, receiving multimodal data and generating final decisions and actions through a simple neural network without human intervention, allowing for real-time adaptation; Third, it should scale up, continuously improving performance and generalization capabilities through ongoing data accumulation.
To achieve end-to-end learning, Star Motion Era adopted a large-scale video data learning strategy that encompasses unlabeled video data, various robot data, human activity data, and teleoperation data. Based on this, it learns action outcomes effectively reducing data collection costs. Furthermore, Star Motion Era has integrated a world model into the native robotic large model, enabling the robot not only to have action capabilities but also to understand the physical world, predict future action trajectories, and respond quickly to external disturbances, continuously optimizing behavior during task execution.
Compared to traditional gripper robots, the five-finger dexterous hand Star Motion XHAND1 based on ERA-42 can use more tools and perform more complex and precise operational tasks. For example, after training with simple colored block grasping data, ERA-42 can successfully generalize to grasp diverse objects it has never seen before. When facing single tasks or long sequence tasks, ERA-42 also demonstrates strong resistance to interference, with the task success rate significantly improving as the model scale increases.
To build a general embodied intelligent agent, Star Motion Era has also launched a new hardware platform defined for AI. Taking Star Motion XHAND1 as an example, it has 12 active degrees of freedom and uses pure electric drive for fully autonomous five-finger joint actuation. Each finger is also equipped with a high-resolution tactile array sensor, providing precise three-dimensional force, touch, and temperature information.
With the support of ERA-42, the versatility and generalization of Star Motion Era's general humanoid robots in executing tasks will be greatly enhanced. Combined with their previously released stable walking and running capabilities, as well as upper and lower limb collaborative operation abilities, the potential application scenarios will become more diverse, promising to truly realize the industrialization of native general embodied intelligent agents. This technological breakthrough will undoubtedly accelerate the integration of robots into households and enable them to play a greater role across various industries.
