Recently, Zhu Qingyi, Chairman of Shandong Zhuge Robot Co., Ltd., returned to the company headquarters in Yantai, Shandong after a long journey. In the past few months, his footprints have covered multiple cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou, exhibiting, promoting, and coordinating cooperation, covering a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers. The journey this time was long and arduous, which posed a significant challenge for me as someone with visual impairments. The AI LOOK robot that accompanied me throughout the entire journey came in handy. ”Zhu Qingyi told reporters. The AI LOOK robot mentioned by Zhu Qingyi is a blind assistant robot developed by him and his research and development team to overcome the life and travel difficulties brought to visually impaired people by unfamiliar environments, and to overcome the fully autonomous guidance technology. For a long time, there have been industry pain points in domestic guide assistance technology. Most products rely on pre scanned maps or manual remote control operations, which not only have poor scene adaptability but also have high operational barriers. ”Zhu Qingyi said, "The blind assistant robot we developed does not require pre scanning of images or manual remote control. It can not only 'see', but also 'think', analyze the surrounding environment in real time and make decisions, and transmit accurate information to visually impaired people through voice." "As a blind person myself, I have a deeper understanding of how visually impaired people crave to see the world clearly. ”This is the original intention of Zhu Qingyi's deep cultivation in the field of helping the blind. At the age of 15, a high fever caused his vision to plummet to 0.01, but he did not become depressed. With an indomitable spirit, he self-taught programming skills and founded a company, leading a team to develop a series of accessible products such as an intelligent management system for blind massage parlors and a special education accessible smart campus. He is committed to building a bridge for visually impaired people to communicate smoothly with the world. In the process of continuously expanding the market, Zhu Qingyi gradually developed the idea of developing exclusive service robots for visually impaired people. At that time, there was no mature precedent for fully autonomous guide robots worldwide, and the research and development team embarked on a long technological breakthrough. In order to enable robots to "see", the research and development team set up various obstacle scenes in the office, connected cameras to computers, and trained the model repeatedly to recognize tables, chairs, bags, pedestrians, etc. When the machine finally recognized what the object was, we found that it didn't know how far the object was. It couldn't determine the distance, so obstacle avoidance was out of the question, and research and development were once again in trouble, "said Zhu Qingyi. Patent. The core competitiveness of AI LOOK robots lies in our pioneering multi-sensor fusion 'neural perception network'. ”Zhao Chong, Chief Technology Officer of Zhuge Robotics Company, told reporters, "The system integrates data from seven high-precision sensors such as LiDAR and depth cameras to build a 360 degree real-time modeling capability for the environment without blind spots. Combined with the company's self-developed pedestrian channel vision model, the recognition accuracy of traffic signs is as high as 99.7%, which can accurately judge the distance of obstacles and plan the optimal safe travel path for users." Since January this year, AI LOOK robots have received over a thousand orders from all over the country. The best guide product may not necessarily be the coolest in terms of technology, but it must be the one that understands the real life scenarios of blind people the most and respects the essence of human-machine cooperation. "Zhu Qingyi said that the blind assistant robot is just a starting point, and the company will continue to iterate and optimize existing blind assistance products, extending its technical capabilities and research and development experience to the field of disability assistance and rehabilitation services. (Looking into the New Era)