CloudMinds

An early Chinese proponent of “cloud robots,” which puts a robot's brain in the cloud.

CloudMinds was founded in March 2015 by Xiaoqing Huang (also known as Bill Huang), formerly president of the China Mobile Research Institute and senior vice president and CTO of UTStarcom; the company is dual-headquartered in Beijing and California. Its core idea is a “cloud brain”: the robot body only handles sensing and physical execution, while recognition and decision-making run in the cloud, connected over a secure private network, with a human able to step in remotely when the AI is unsure. Its investors included SoftBank and Foxconn. In 2019 it filed with the SEC for a New York Stock Exchange IPO, was added to the US Entity List in May 2020, and withdrew its IPO filing that July, reportedly losing about three-quarters of its orders as a result. Before China's current embodied-AI boom, it was one of the representative companies in cloud robotics and service robots.

Also called

CloudMinds Technology

Related

Cloud-Edge-Device Collaboration · Service Robot · Remote Teleoperation Takeover (Human Fallback) · Humanoid Robot · SoftBank Group

Sources

Wikipedia: CloudMinds
维基百科：达闼科技 (Chinese)
维基百科：黄晓庆 (Chinese)

As of

2020-07