The concept car of Jidu Auto Robot was born, and the self-developed “cabin-driving integration” technology was launched.

(The first digital car owner “Xigaga” in the collection)

The automobile revolution has gone through the “fuel car 1.0 era” and the “electric car 2.0 era”. The “smart car 3.0 era” defined by Jidu is driven by AI, leading the innovation of a new generation of automobile products, and creating a revolutionary car robot with wisdom and emotion. .

Xia Yiping, CEO of Jidu, said: “The era of smart car 3.0 is the era of automotive robots. The starting point of the era’s transformation is the transfer of car ‘driving rights’ from humans to AI, and AI drives the evolution of cars. The automotive industry in the era of 3.0 will realize the transformation from energy to products. The ultimate goal of the transformation and transition of attributes is to drive unmanned vehicles. Jidu Auto Robot meets users’ demands for the ultimate experience of smart travel, smart assistants and smart spaces in the era of smart cars 3.0. core competitiveness.”

ROBO-01 is both a car and a robot, a futuristic and empathetic technology product

Let AI have emotion and technology have temperature, which is the design origin of the ROBO-01 concept car of Jidu Auto Robot. At the beginning of the design, Jidu pursues technology, purity, simplicity, and less is more.

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(Car Robot Concept Car ROBO-01)

ROBO-01 redefines the color of the body. The three colors of galaxy purple, nebula gray and star porcelain white shape the “personalized skin” of the car robot. Each innovative color is composed of 5 pigment technology coats and layers of paint, which reflect the rich hues in natural light, showcasing the unique personality of the car robot.

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(Galaxy Purple, Nebula Gray, Star Porcelain White)

ROBO-01 condenses Jidu’s exploration of new designs, new technologies and new concepts, reveals some design commonalities of the ultimate car robot in advance, and fully demonstrates Jidu’s “robot aesthetics”. Futurism, robotization and empathy are the three genes of Jidu’s “automobile robot” product design.

Futurism – 3D unbounded integrated ultra-clear large screen, cancel the physical control keys such as doorknobs and levers

The appearance of ROBO-01 is simple and atmospheric, full of futuristic feeling. By designing a more intelligent, higher-performance, higher-integration kit, the traditional door handles and other complicated components are eliminated, and the design of the main and passenger wing doors, rear side doors, and non-marking side windows is unique in the industry. The streamlined body is like a robot shell, with a dynamic beauty.

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(no physical buttons)

The 3D unbounded integrated ultra-wide screen is a truly integrated, non-spliced ​​ultra-clear screen. It runs through the design of the main and auxiliary drivers and will provide an immersive audio-visual experience. In addition, the physical control keys such as door handles, shift levers, and left and right levers have been eliminated in the whole vehicle, which is simplified and simplified, and the interaction between people and vehicles is natural and direct.

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(integrated large screen)

Robotization – stronger AI perception, more active deformable structures

The automotive robot concept car ROBO-01 has stronger AI perception and active service capabilities. ROBO-01 has many active deformable structures, such as the front cover “jump light” liftable lidar, active lift tail ROBOWing, foldable U-shaped steering wheel, lift satellite speakers, adaptive swan neck 0 gravity seat Wait.

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(Integrated patent: jump-light, liftable and collapsible lidar located on the front cover)

The integrated design of the jump-light and actively collapsible lidar not only enhances the “perception” of high-level autonomous driving, but also further improves the safety and stability of the intelligent driving system. In addition, the lidar will also be actively collapsed by AI intervention or physically collapsed after force before the collision occurs, so as to improve the safety factor. Recently, Jidu has obtained the national patent for this technology.

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(Does not block the screen, foldable U-shaped steering wheel)

ROBO-01’s unique U-shaped steering wheel design maximizes the visibility of information on the ultra-clear large screen. In addition, the leading-edge steer-by-wire technology supports U-shaped steering wheel folding, hidden and variable steering ratios in autonomous driving mode.

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(folded state steering wheel, swan neck 0 gravity seat)

The 0-gravity seat inspired by spaceships is lightweight, breathable, and highly wrapping. Its “swan neck” headrest design has an adaptive adjustment function, making every trip easy and comfortable.

Empathy – interactive AI lamp language, no limit to emotional communication

ROBO-01 has user emotion recognition ability and can interact with the outside world with its own state and emotions. Its robotized front face design integrates interactive AI pixel headlights and high recognition rate AI voice interaction system. Realize the natural communication between “people-vehicle-environment”.

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(AI lamp language)

AI pixel headlights and the whole car run through the ambient lights, presenting the most “social cow” lamp language, giving new connotations of intelligence inside and outside the car. ROBO-01 can transmit its thinking results in the form of AI lamp language according to its own perception of the external environment.

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(active lift tail and tail AI lights)

Focus on automotive robots to develop leading technologies to “support” product experience

Jidu has reconstructed the product development model of the traditional automobile industry, and through its pioneering SIMUCar (software integrated simulation prototype) research and development process, the software development of intelligent driving and intelligent cabin is pre-positioned. In addition, Jidu has developed the world‘s leading intelligent architecture JET (EEA+SOA) for high-level autonomous driving, thereby developing a powerful intelligent driving and intelligent cockpit system.

The set degree divides the car robot into three parts: “brain”, “nerve” and “torso”. The related capabilities of intelligent driving and intelligent cockpit serve as the brain and soul, the intelligent architecture JET serves as the nerve, and the vehicle structure and powertrain serve as the torso. Using the Gigabit Ethernet loop with full coverage, low latency, and high bandwidth to link important “organs” such as the entire vehicle sensor and high-performance computing platform, it can meet the efficient connection of underlying hardware, AI capabilities, and upper-layer application services. Sharing, perception sharing, service sharing, to achieve “free movement”, “natural communication” and “self-growth” of automotive robots.

Jidu JET “Global Integration”: Creating an Intelligent Architecture for Advanced Autonomous Driving

The self-developed high-level autonomous driving intelligent architecture JET integrates the electronic and electrical architecture EEA and SOA operating system, which can carry high-level autonomous driving core functions and AI capabilities, and realize global integration (inter-domain & intra-domain).

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Based on Jidu JET’s powerful “global integration” capability, several innovations of ROBO-01 have achieved “industry-leading”:

First, create the SIMUCar R&D process, start intelligent development 15 months ahead of the industry average progress, complete the system security and stability verification, and deliver full deployment;

Second, a new front cover lift-type dual lidar is built, covering a horizontal 180° FOV, specifically for extreme scenarios such as “ghost probes”;

Third, the leading “vision + lidar” automatic driving solution, independent dual systems are mutually backup and redundant;

Fourth, the first launch is equipped with dual top chips: NVIDIA dual Orin X chips and Qualcomm 8295 chips, the AI ​​computing power of the vehicle is 538Tops, which can meet high-end autonomous driving, support immersive 3D interaction, and lead the industry for a generation;

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Fifth, create a SOA-based cabin-driving fusion technology to realize computing power sharing, perception sharing, and service sharing. The intelligent cabin domain controller can support system-level security redundancy under the failure of the intelligent driving system, and the intelligent driving domain controller can support intelligent driving. The ultimate AI interaction of the cabin 3D man-machine co-driving map.

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Sixth, innovatively create a 3D man-machine co-driving map solution: 3D dynamic man-machine co-driving map, which realizes the integration of static map navigation and dynamic perception data, so that the perception of the car robot can run on the three-dimensional map.

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(3D dynamic man-machine co-driving map interface of ROBO-01)

Jidu Zhijia “out-of-the-box”: delivery with multi-scenario high-level autonomous driving capabilities

Jidu is the only smart car brand in the industry that applies Apollo’s “unmanned” capabilities and safety systems for autonomous driving. These capabilities have been re-integrated and developed and verified by Jidu to bring high-level automation in multiple scenarios to ordinary users. driving experience. Baidu Apollo’s high-level autonomous driving capabilities have been extensively verified on its Robotaxi. It has 27 million kilometers of autonomous driving test mileage with zero accidents and a large number of Robotaxi road test teams conducting real road tests in more than 30 cities across the country. Improve the ability of autonomous driving systems to deal with complex urban roads.

The Jidu autonomous driving system is equipped with NVIDIA’s “dual” Orin X chip, and the whole vehicle is equipped with 31 external sensors, including 2 lidars, 5 millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic radars, and 12 cameras. The “jump-light” lidar of the ROBO-01 concept car is located at the front cover, and the FOV of the two lidars reaches 180 degrees. Pedestrian recognition ability is stronger. When the intelligent driving mode is turned on, the two automatic driving systems of “vision + dual lidar” not only maintain independent operation, but also backup and cooperate with each other.

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Based on the self-developed SOA cabin-drive fusion technology architecture, it has created an industry-leading “true redundancy” solution for high-end autonomous driving by virtue of its technological innovation in which the “dual systems” of intelligent driving are mutually redundant. The solution has been successfully tested on the SIMUCar (software integrated simulation prototype), which has verified in advance the safety and stability of the high-end automatic driving system “landing mass production”.

The integrated automatic driving system can realize the “three-domain integration” of high-speed, urban, and parking, and has high-level automatic driving capabilities from point to point. Function. When the product is launched and delivered, users can directly obtain high-level autonomous driving functions in multiple scenarios, enabling “out-of-the-box use”.

In terms of the safety of the intelligent driving system, Jidu took the lead in proposing the “three safety concepts” for automotive robots – design safety, verification safety, and perception safety, to ensure the “safety and reliability” of automotive robots.

Design security refers to redundant architecture and algorithm design, such as systems with two or more high-level autonomous driving capabilities, and computing power and algorithms that support higher-level solutions; verification security refers to high-level autonomous driving products Before delivery to users, it is necessary to completely verify its safety and stability in mass production scenarios; perceptual safety means that users can always know the safety status of automotive robots through visual, auditory, and tactile interactions.

Jidu believes that the security that can be perceived by users is more important, and only by realizing the closed loop of design, verification and perception can we truly achieve “safety and reliability”.

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Jidu Smart Cabin “Human-like Sensing”: Supports “millisecond-level” full offline intelligent voice interaction

Jidu intelligent cockpit has leading functions such as full offline voice, millisecond-level response, 3D human-machine co-driving map, and full-scene interaction inside and outside the car.

Jidu first released Qualcomm’s fourth-generation Snapdragon automotive digital cockpit platform-8295 chip, which supports the 3D effect presentation of the unbounded integrated ultra-clear large screen and meets the user’s scene-based needs such as driving navigation, game entertainment, and online office; the screen also supports switching The “3D man-machine co-driving map” mode allows the perception of the car robot to run on the three-dimensional map, creating an immersive 3D panoramic experience.

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The “millisecond-level” intelligent voice response of Jidu Smart Cabin achieves 100% full scene coverage inside and outside the car; the “full offline” intelligent voice function will get rid of the influence of network signals. In addition, its “human-like” interaction capabilities of multi-modal integration such as visual perception, voiceprint recognition, and lip language capture allow people to communicate “naturally and smoothly” with the car.

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In the era of smart car 3.0, AI drives evolution, and the advanced concentrated car robot will soon usher in the next milestone. Jidu plans to officially launch a limited edition of its first mass-produced model in the fall of 2022. The mass-produced model is 90% similar to the ROBO-01 concept car. In addition, Jidu will also release the design of its second mass-produced model at this year’s Guangzhou Auto Show.Return to Sohu, see more