The world mannequin has not been established, the computing energy price is extraordinarily excessive, and the operation and questions of safety haven’t been resolved. How to overcome the three difficult issues in the wave of embodied intelligence and promote the trade to shift from “showcasing skills” to industrial implementation has at all times been the main target of consideration in the trade.
At the 2025 Science and Technology Innovation Changemakers Conference hosted by the Zhiyou·Yarui Science and Technology Innovation Platform, Professor Wang Tianmiao, the initiator of the Zhiyou·Yarui Science and Technology Innovation Platform and the honorary director of the Robotics Research Institute of Beihang University, launched the “2025 China Embodied Intelligence Industry Star Map” and proposed a brand new concept of breaking by way of the present bottleneck of commercial implementation with “intelligent demarcation”.
The “2025 China Embodied Intelligence Industry Star Map” divides the trade into 5 core sectors: base know-how, basic embodied intelligence, particular – goal embodied intelligence, dexterous fingers and finish – effectors, and core elements, masking greater than 300 consultant enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the home industrial chain. From the angle of technological evolution, the 5 core sectors at all times pull one another, selling the coordinated improvement of the general trade.
Wang Tianmiao reviewed the principle driving forces at every stage of the event of embodied intelligence: From the Nineteen Fifties to the Nineteen Eighties, synthetic intelligence robots began with the know-how base. There was not a lot progress in know-how for greater than a decade. However, Japan took the lead in selling the introduction of a {hardware} platform with a basic base. The know-how base entered particular industrial eventualities, from heavy industries reminiscent of welding, casting, and meeting to every day client items reminiscent of vehicles, bikes, and family home equipment. Relatively basic six – axis 4 – cylinder and parallel applied sciences had been fashioned. China made nice progress in small six – axis and collaborative robots, and half of the world’s industrial robots are made in China.
From the 2010s to the 2020s, the breakthrough level of improvement returned to the know-how base. There was a considerable breakthrough in the deep studying of synthetic intelligence. ChatGPT and Tesla’s humanoid robots set off a wave of embodied intelligence. “Technology” has change into the direct variable driving the transformation of the present embodied intelligence industrial chain.
However, though the generalization capability of basic know-how gives the likelihood for utility implementation, it nonetheless faces a number of challenges reminiscent of security, effectivity, and upkeep price at current. The subsequent spherical of transformation of the embodied intelligence industrial chain can be triggered by “applications”.
Professor Wang Tianmiao launched the “2025 China Embodied Intelligence Industry Star Map”
“In 2025, the industrial implementation led by ‘intelligent demarcation’ will be launched.” Wang Tianmiao proposed the idea of “intelligent demarcation”: By defining boundaries in particular eventualities reminiscent of manufacturing, consumption, medical care, and enterprise, re – look at the issues of fashions, computing energy, and platforms, perceive the varied wants of embodied intelligence in totally different eventualities, drive the assist of the final base Agent, and re – outline core elements and particular – goal actuators. Its goal is to “form a pulling force in the leading vertical sectors first, and at the same time be able to design and manufacture global intelligent hardware products to form an ecosystem of manufacturing services.”
Wang Tianmiao additional mentioned {that a} sequence of sub – fields reminiscent of unmanned supply, unmanned sanitation, companion communication, Agent assistants, supermarkets and pharmacies, hospital purposes, and manufacturing logistics, welding, and grinding are anticipated to be applied first.
The industrial circle expects to discover the feasibility of “intelligent demarcation” in the second half of the event of embodied intelligence, remodeling the tough drawback of developing a posh, time – various, and unsure world mannequin into developing small vertical fashions that concentrate on particular actual – world environments and are simpler to “solve within a limited scope”.
The key to this course of is to be led by “operation”, systematically driving the mixing and adjustment of varied nodes such because the “Al Agent model”, “multi – modal tools for VLM/VLA model and data training”, “adapted computing power domain control”, “operating environment”, and “process flow”. Ultimately, remedy issues reminiscent of tough generalization, tough actual – time efficiency, poor knowledge high quality, low operation fault tolerance, and excessive price, and speed up the emergence of main new – power begin – up firms.
Wang Tianmiao identified that embodied intelligence is the important thing know-how and the breakthrough level for top – finish science and know-how industries in China to address the “once – in – a – century change”. Facing issues reminiscent of strategic video games amongst main powers, overcapacity in conventional industries, and over – dependence on actual property, AI technological innovation, bodily AI (embodied intelligence), international cooperation, and commerce will promote China’s future financial restoration and lengthy – time period development.
China’s embodied intelligence trade is anticipated to bid farewell to the chaotic state of pursuing basic fashions and shift to implementation breakthroughs led by “intelligent demarcation” in vertical eventualities.