"Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" June 19th news (reporter Li Mingming), recently, Beijing Xiaomi Robot Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xiaomi Robot") has undergone industrial and commercial changes, and newly added Beijing Yitang Chuanxin Venture Capital Center (Limited Partnership). As a shareholder under the Flag of Yizhuang Guotou, at the same time, the company's registered capital increased from 50 million yuan to approximately 55.5556 million yuan."

"Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" reporter noticed that Xiaomi Group has been deeply cultivating Yizhuang (that is, Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone) for a long time. On **** of this year, the official WeChat public account of the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee announced that Xiaomi Robot officially moved to Beijing Yizhuang Xiaomi Automobile Factory."

At this point, Xiaomi Group's two major businesses, robots and cars, have both settled in Yizhuang, Beijing."

"In recent years, Yizhuang has quietly ushered in another major industry label: the southern robot industry highland in Beijing. As an important robot industry cluster in Beijing, Yizhuang has gathered more than 100 robot ecological companies, half of which are specialized and special new enterprises, forming a robot industry chain system covering core components, whole machines to applications. "

"Specializing in bionic robot technology,"

Xiaomi Robot was established in April 2023, with Zeng Xuezong as the legal representative and a registered capital of RMB 50 million. It is now jointly held by Beijing Xiaomi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Yitang Chuanxin Venture Capital Center (Limited Partnership). Its business scope includes R&D of intelligent robots; integrated application systems for the artificial intelligence industry; basic resources and technology platforms for artificial intelligence; and manufacturing of micro-special electric motors and components."

Xiaomi Group is the first to invest in bionic robot development in China, and has established a research and development system with hundreds of people. Its capabilities cover dimensions such as components to hardware systems, software systems, operation control and sensing. In terms of products, CyberDog, full-size humanoid robot CyberOne, and the new bionic quadruped robot CyberDog2 have been released, among which CyberDog2 can independently respond to people's actions, speech and other instructions like a real dog, and perform basic actions such as forward and back jumps, obstacle avoidance, as well as backflips and moonwalks."

"At present, Xiaomi Robot is promoting the phased landing of humanoid robots in its own manufacturing system. In the short term, Xiaomi Robot is a dedicated intelligent robot applied in certain scenes of intelligent manufacturing and will expand to more scenarios in the future."

Regarding the latest progress of Xiaomi Robot's business, Xu Duo, vice chairman of the Xiaomi Group Technology Committee and general manager of Xiaomi Robot, said: "Industrial and service scenarios are the main application directions."

"A professor at a domestic university's robotics research institute told the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" reporter that bionic robots refer to robots that mimic human appearance and behavior, and their task is to help humans complete repetitive, boring, and dangerous work. At present, the walking, running, jumping and other motion capabilities of bionic robots in China are close to the international frontier. Among them, Xiaomi's CyberOne and other products and UBTech's Walker X represent their industrialization level."

"At present, China's bionic robots are still in the technology demonstration stage, and there is still some distance from foreign commercial stages. The technical pain points to be solved next are behavioral intelligent decision-making, bionic skill transfer learning, multiple sensing fusion force self-adaptation, and other issues, which require further development and integration of computer, new materials, artificial intelligence, life medicine and other related disciplines."

"The 'Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily' reporter learned that at present, domestic enterprises specializing in bionic robots mainly include UBTech, Xiaomi, Yushu, Zuimei, Fourier Intelligence, etc."

"Yizhuang builds a southern robot industry highland in Beijing,"

"In the investment circle of Yizhuang Guotou, a well-known company, it is a state-owned capital investment and operation company that serves the scientific and technological innovation and industrial development of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone. The company was established in February 2009, with its registered office located in Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, and the legal representative is Chen Zhicheng."

"The original intention of Yizhuang Guotou, stems from the establishment of the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone in 1992. In 2007, the Beijing municipal government approved the 'Daxing Yizhuang New City Plan (2005-2020)', which clearly stated that Daxing Yizhuang New City, which is the core functional area of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, is one of the important nodes and key development new cities. From then on, Yizhuang Guotou became one of the most active national-level mother funds in China and provided an excellent benchmark for the mother fund to drive industrial development."

"Since then, Yizhuang has quietly ushered in another major industry label: the southern robot industry highland in Beijing. As an important robot industry cluster in Beijing, Yizhuang has gathered more than 100 robot ecological companies, half of which are specialized and special new enterprises, forming a robot industry chain system covering core components, whole machines to applications."

As of the end of December 2023, Yizhuang Guotou participated in the establishment of 65 funds with a total fund size exceeding 673 billion yuan. The total assets of Yizhuang Guotou exceeded 116.5 billion yuan, with nearly 200 investment projects under management and a total investment amount of approximately 90 billion yuan. It has publicly invested in 169 events and has focused on high-tech industries in recent years, investing in Qingyan Zhixing, New Stone Age unmanned vehicles, Zhongke Yuanxin, UbiBot and more.

In the field of robotics, last month Yizhuang Guotou also participated in the $30 million Pre-B round financing of Jianzhi Robotics. It is reported that Jianzhi Robotics currently regards autonomous driving as the first stage of application scenarios, and the long-term goal is to develop universal robots.

Behind the consecutive investments in robot companies is Yizhuang's determination to strengthen the robot industry.

In August 2023, Beijing Yizhuang released the "Three-year action plan (2023-2025) for the high-quality development of the robot industry in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone", proposing to support the construction of a group of innovation centers represented by humanoid robot innovation centers, give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises, and create a source of technical innovation;

At the end of November last year, Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, the first provincial-level humanoid robot innovation center in China, was established and an expert committee was established in January 2024.

A source close to the innovation center told the "Star Daily" reporter that the innovation center has set up five R&D sectors: ontology prototype (limbs), motion control system (cerebellum), enactive intelligence large model (brain), open source toolchain and OS operating system, etc. Additional software and hardware functional modules can be added at any time to meet the needs of different application scenarios.

In January of this year, the Beijing Robot Industry Development Investment Fund, with a target size of 10 billion yuan, was registered in Yizhuang, Beijing. The relevant person in charge of the economic development zone stated that they will accelerate the construction of the Beijing (Yizhuang) International Robot Industry Park and create a world-leading development highland for humanoid robot industry.

In April of this year, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Industry Alliance also settled in Yizhuang, Beijing.

Up to now, Yizhuang, Beijing has gathered two humanoid robot whole machine R&D and manufacturing companies, several key component companies, one provincial-level innovation center, one industrial alliance, one municipal-level fund and 21 characteristic industrial parks.

Among them, in terms of the whole machine, Yizhuang, Beijing has gathered a group of humanoid robot companies led by Xiaomi Robot and Ubi Bot; in terms of components, key component products such as high-precision reducers and servo systems have reached the international level.

The relevant person in charge of the economic development zone introduced that as an important gathering place for the robot industry in Beijing, Yizhuang, Beijing has gathered more than 100 robotic ecology companies. Next, Yizhuang, Beijing will accelerate the improvement of the humanoid robot industry ecology, plan to introduce the three-year action plan for the humanoid robot industry, optimize and upgrade the industrial space, speed up the construction of the robot testing platform, key component precision machining center, exhibition center, and put them into use one after another this year.