Pandaily reported on 13 November that Huawei Cloud had announced an online launch of CloudRobo-WM1.2 for 16 November. Huawei Cloud bills it as the first world model built for its Ascend AI chips within the Industry AI Dream Factory, its platform for industry AI.
A world model predicts how a scene may change when a robot acts, allowing movements to be tried in simulation before testing on real hardware. CloudRobo, the factory’s embodied AI development platform, covers data, model training, simulation and real-robot testing. Huawei Cloud has said it leaves robot bodies to hardware partners.
Picking up an object could be practised in simulation before the movement is tried on a physical robot, if the model can predict how the scene responds.
Huawei Cloud plans to run the launch from 14:00 to 15:30 Beijing time on 16 November. Wu Xiaodong, who leads its embodied AI product line and Embodied AI Lab, is scheduled to present the model. Liu Liu, the lab’s chief model expert, has a session on robot manipulation. Pandaily reported that Huawei Cloud has not released technical details, parameter counts, benchmarks, supported robot types, availability or pricing.
