Xiaomi open-sources AI model spanning autonomous driving and robotics
Xiaomi has open-sourced a new foundation model that integrates autonomous driving and embodied artificial intelligence, as the Chinese smartphone and electric-vehicle (EV) manufacturer seeks to enhance its AI capabilities. MiMo-Embodied, which comes after Xiaomi’s first large language model MiMo launched in April, was described as the “first open-source vision-language model” that combined autonomous driving and…
The cross-embodied model achieved state-of-the-art performance in both domains, according to Xiaomi. It demonstrated “superior” results in task planning, affordance prediction and spatial understanding for embodied AI, while excelling in environmental perception, status prediction and drive planning for autonomous driving.
Interest in embodied intelligence, which integrates AI into physical systems, has surged alongside rapid advancements in humanoid robotics in China.
Xiaomi debuted prototypes of a quadrupedal robot dog and a humanoid robot in 2021 and 2022, respectively, and has been heavily investing in related areas.
01:52
China’s Guangdong Xiaopeng tries to dispel rumours that its robot is human
China’s Guangdong Xiaopeng tries to dispel rumours that its robot is human
