Beijing is officially firing up a massive 9,700sqm pilot verification platform to bridge the gap between lab prototypes and real-world mass production 🤖🚀
They just hit a massive milestone with the 1,000th custom robot rolling off the line as the facility officially opens.
This hub isn't just a research site; it’s a fully-equipped factory designed to solve the four biggest headaches in the industry: the lack of pro-grade pilot services, standardized production gaps, incomplete testing systems, and the missing data loop from R&D to mass manufacturing.
➤ The facility features three major demo lines: a full humanoid assembly line, a high-precision joint production line, and a shared small-batch trial line for startups and universities.
➤ It offers a comprehensive one-stop service menu covering prototyping, performance validation, process optimization, functional module assembly, full-system integration, and testing.
➤ Currently packing over 500 sets of professional equipment, the hub boasts an annual capacity of 5,000 humanoid units.
➤ The entire operation is powered by a unified digital O&M system that syncs information, logistics, and data flows, ensuring full traceability from design to final testing.
By lowering the hardware barrier and manufacturing costs, this platform is set to become the central nervous system for the humanoid robotics ecosystem, accelerating the jump from "prototype" to "market-ready."
Source: Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics (X-Humanoid)
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Step into the bot’s perspective: See how it tackles chores, shopping, and complex long-horizon tasks. The "brain" making this possible is now open-source.
The Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics(X-Humanoid) has fully open-sourced Pelican-VL 1.0, an embodied intelligence VLM model (7B and 72B versions). It is claimed to be the largest and most powerful open-source embodied multimodal large model yet.
Key Stats:
⚡ Performance: Tests show it outperforming GPT-5-class models by 15.79% and Google Gemini series by 19.25%.
🧠 Innovation: Features the world's first DPPO (Deliberate Practice Policy Optimization) training framework, enabling self-correction by mimicking human metacognition.
💰 Efficiency: Achieved peak performance using only 200K data, just 1/10th to 1/50th the data of other major models, making it a VLM cost-performance leader.
Pelican-VL acts as the "visual-language brain" for VLA systems, handling environment perception and complex multi-step task planning. Its open-source release aims to significantly lower the barrier for industrial and home service deployment, accelerating full autonomy in embodied intelligence.
Notably, Pelican-VL's core development team consists entirely of women, highlighting the significant contributions of female talent in China's technological innovation.