Chinese tech giant, Xiaomi, has unveiled its first entry into the world of robotics, named Cyberdog a quadruped robot dog. The Xiaomi Cyberdog resembles the robot dog “Spot” from the US company, Boston Dynamics which was recently acquired by South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer, Hyundai.
Xiaomi says that the open-source quadruped robot is intended for developers to “build upon” and create applications for.
Xiaomi’s Cyberdog’s brain is powered by NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX platform, an AI Supercomputer for Embedded and Edge Systems which includes 384 CUDA® Cores, 48 Tensor Cores, a 6 Carmel ARM CPU, and 2 deep learning acceleration engines.
With a maximum torque output and rotation speed up to 32N·m/220Rpm, CyberDog is able to conduct a range of high-speed movements up to 3.2m/s and complicated actions such as backflips. To fully model biological organisms, CyberDog is equipped with 11 high-precision sensors which provide instant feedback to guide its movements. This includes touch sensors, cameras, ultrasonic sensors, GPS modules, and more, giving the CyberDog enhanced capability to sense, analyze, and interact with its environment.
Through open source, Xiaomi encourages developers from around the world to contribute to this field, communicate with each other, and progress together.
Xiaomi says it is providing 1,000 units of CyberDog at RMB 9,999 ($1,540) to Xiaomi Fans, engineers, and robotic enthusiasts to jointly explore the immense possibility of CyberDog. It will also set up the “Xiaomi Open Source Community” to constantly share progress and results with developers around the world, and promises to establish a robotics laboratory to provide a platform for engineers to continue the pursuit of future innovations.
