Yushu Technology, "Flash" Shanghai

At the ongoing 2025 Global Developer Conference (referred to as "GDC"), humanoid robots are in the spotlight.

The industry's "top player," Yushu Technology, showcased the Unitree Go2 quadruped robot dog and the Unitree G1 humanoid robot, performing programs such as "humanoid robot 'walking the dog'," capturing the attention of the audience.

Staff from Yushu Technology introduced to reporters that the quadruped robot dog is primarily aimed at C-end consumers, while the humanoid robot is mainly targeted at developers. Developers can conduct secondary development by adjusting the robot's perception and motion algorithms based on Yushu's hardware.

Previously, companies and research institutions such as the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and NVIDIA released algorithms and frameworks for humanoid robots based on the Unitree G1 humanoid robot, significantly enhancing the robot's motion control to perform complex actions such as shooting and dribbling.

Multiple Robots Debut in Shanghai

Yunshen Chu, one of the "Six Little Dragons" from Hangzhou, also attended the GDC, showcasing its quadruped robot performing "backflips."

Beijing Accelerated Evolution Technology Co., Ltd. set up a green area in the exhibition hall, where several humanoid robots were divided into red and blue teams to play a soccer match.

This is the MATRIX-1, developed by Matrix Super Intelligence over 132 days, with the audience eagerly waving and greeting it. In terms of appearance, the MATRIX-1 has a unique design: standing 1.8 meters tall—considered "tall" among humanoid robots; entirely white, with its "steel frame" wrapped in a new composite material; it has 77 degrees of freedom, including 3 degrees of freedom in the hip joints and 4 degrees of freedom in the neck.

The design choices were explained by Zhang Haixing, the founder of Matrix Super Intelligence, who stated that from a safety perspective, the composite material effectively avoids the risks associated with exposed components, ensuring safe human-robot interaction; from an engineering technology standpoint, the composite material overcomes challenges related to flexibility, tensile strength, and weather resistance, achieving innovation in structure and materials; aesthetically, the humanoid skin-like texture and temperature sensing capabilities make it more approachable and easier for users to accept

Recently completing a new round of financing, Xinghai Map has brought a highly user-friendly embodied intelligent entity. The robot can synchronously mimic the hand movements of the audience and pick up objects on the table.

In addition, local manufacturers such as Zhiyuan Robotics, Humanoid Robotics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., and Captec Robotics were almost all present to showcase their technological strength at GDC.

Building an Open Ecosystem

At this developer conference, open source became a major keyword.

Open source refers to making the source code, design materials, and other projects of software and hardware available to the public, breaking down information barriers, allowing other participants to learn, research, and innovate based on existing foundations, avoiding redundant labor, and improving innovation efficiency.

Staff from Yushu Technology introduced that Yushu Technology also has open-source-related initiatives. In November 2024, Yushu Technology announced that to promote the development of the global embodied intelligence industry, it would open-source the G1 humanoid robot operating dataset, compatible with various open-source solutions.

In the field of humanoid robots, Shanghai is accelerating the promotion of open-source and openness, aiming to build "the city that understands developers the most." In January of this year, the country's first heterogeneous humanoid robot training ground was launched in Shanghai, with over a hundred heterogeneous robots deployed in the first phase. This training ground aims to achieve large-scale collection and production of humanoid robot data, providing key support for developing a general-purpose robot foundational model.

The National and Local Joint Innovation Center for Humanoid Robots (referred to as "National and Local Center") released the world's first open-source public version of a general-purpose humanoid robot, "Qinglong," last year, allowing Chinese humanoid robot companies to develop based on "Qinglong" without having to "reinvent the wheel."

The National and Local Center also launched the world's first full-size humanoid robot open-source community, "OpenLoong," to gather top talents to discuss and research common technologies while accumulating technological progress. Industry insiders have noted that in the open-source community, developers can also discuss issues such as ethical norms, making it easier to reach a consensus. After open-sourcing, relevant enterprises and technical personnel in the industry chain, including the brain, cerebellum, and entities, gather in the community, accelerating industry integration.

Author of this article: Sun Xiaocheng, Source: Shanghai Securities Journal, Original Title: "Yushu Technology, 'Flashing' in Shanghai"

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