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Glass crashes slashed? Ant Group embodied AI unit claims breakthrough in robot sensing
New perception model for embodied AI surpasses dominant rival from Meta Platforms at smaller scale with less training, firm claims
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Ann Caoin Shanghai
Robbyant, the embodied artificial intelligence arm of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, launched a new vision model that it claims can help robots overcome a long-standing challenge: accurately perceiving glass, mirrors and transparent objects.
The unit of Hangzhou-based Ant Group on Tuesday unveiled its next-generation spatial perception model, LingBot-Depth 2.0, alongside a new foundational visual model called LingBot-Vision, as AI labs race to equip machines with the “brains” required to navigate complex physical spaces.
Together, the technologies aimed to solve a critical bottleneck in robotics by ensuring machines could “accurately and stably” see in unpredictable, real-world environments, according to the Robbyant, which is also known as Ant Lingbo Technology.
It was the first model of its kind trained specifically to recognise the edges of objects, the firm said. This allowed the AI to pinpoint boundaries with high precision – down to a fraction of a single pixel – giving robots a sharper understanding of the 3D spaces around them, it added.
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