The world’s first electric running humanoid robot “Tiangong” went open source on Monday, a move that is expected to facilitate secondary development of humanoid robots and accelerate robots’ integration into human life.
Developed by Beijing-based National and Local Co-built Embodied AI Robotics Innovation Center, Tiangong is claimed to be the first full-sized humanoid robot driven purely by electric power.
Using “Tiangong” as a foundational platform will advance secondary development in embodied robotics and exploration in various cutting-edge areas like body mechanics and embodied intelligence, Xiong Youjun, the general manager of the center, told the Global Times.
“The ‘Tiangong’ mother platform has undergone extensive testing and validation. After being open-sourced, other enterprises and research institutions can directly use it, which shortens the industry’s development cycle and reduces research and development costs, the Global Times learnt from Liu Yizhang, a manager responsible for Tiangong from the center.
The open-source project covers two versions of the humanoid robot – “Tiangong 1.0 LITE” and “Tiangong Pro,” with software development and structural design documents already available to researchers and collaborators, Liu said.