Practitioners in the field of autonomous driving are turning to the embodied intelligence track

Recently, many technical leaders in the field of autonomous driving have been exposed to enter the embodied intelligence (large models and humanoid robots) track, including Yu Yinan (PhD), a founding member, vice president, and former president of the software platform product line of Horizon Robotics, a listed company of intelligent driving chips, who resigned and has entered the field of embodied intelligence; Liu Fang, former head of Xiaomi's autonomous driving product technology and head of mass production, has established an embodied intelligence concept company (registered in September). It is worth noting that at the end of October, there were media reports that Liu Fang would join Anker Innovations to be responsible for the newly formed embodied robot team of Anker Innovations and report directly to Zhu Fanghao, vice president of Anker Innovations and president of Zhixin Technology. As the autonomous driving industry has stabilized and embodied intelligence has ushered in an investment boom, practitioners and companies in the field of autonomous driving have quickly turned to or increased their investment in embodied intelligence; at the same time, because the hardware (components) are of the same origin, the upstream core component companies of car companies are trapped by the crazy price increases of intelligent driving companies, and have also begun to lay out the humanoid robot industry chain through investment or self-research.