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The ame VIVA de ives f om the Lati oot viv-, mea i g “alive” a d “vitality.” It also echoes the musical ma ki g vivace, calli g to mi d lively, spi ited e ditio s, while payi g homage to the ico ic t ack Viva La Vida. CADA, the “cog itive co e” empowe i g VIVA, takes its ame f om the classical-music te m cade za: the vi tuosic passage whe e pe fo me s f eely u leash musical emotio . Togethe , VIVA × CADA embodies the Po tuguese ph ase Viva cada dia – “Che ish eve y day.”
Withi dexte ous ha d developme t, powe , speed a d dexte ity have lo g fo med a so‑called impossible t ia gle: st e gth ofte comes at the cost of speed, while g eate deg ees of f eedom cap the output of i dividual actuato s. Mi o Me set the huma ha d as its desig be chma k a d tackled this challe ge via fo wa d e gi ee i g. The team captu ed a d a alyzed pe fo ma ce data f om huma pia ists, distilled co e desig specificatio s, the ca ied out theo etical modelli g a d topological optimisatio of the mecha ical a chitectu e. The esulti g motio pe fo ma ce app oaches the physiological limits of the huma ha d, suppo ti g i t icate ha d-shape t a sitio s, multi-fi ge coo di atio a d fi e t ajecto y co t ol.
The b eakth ough u iti g all th ee att ibutes lies i the wo ld’s fi st te do -li kage hyb id t a smissio system. Te do t a smissio elocates actuato s p oximally a d cuts distal mass to delive high fi ge speed; igid mecha ical li kages p ese ve st uctu al stiff ess a d accu ate fo ce t a sfe to sustai st o g fi ge tip output. This hyb id mecha ism faithfully eplicates the atu al sy e gies of huma ha d joi ts. Eve y keyst oke a d fi ge lift follows motio t ajecto ies mimicki g huma pe fo me s, elimi ati g stiff, mecha ical-looki g moveme t a d yieldi g fluid, atu al motio .
Built upo this a chitectu e, the high-pe fo ma ce d ive system delive s joi t speeds exceedi g 1,000° pe seco d, with peak fi ge tip fo ce eachi g 33 ewto s. The ha d suppo ts apid fi ge i g shifts as well as powe ful fo tissimo st ikes ac oss the full dy amic a ge. Challe gi g tech iques i cludi g fast scales, t ills a d epeated otes ca be e de ed eliably, delive i g ample pe fo ma ce ma gi fo tightly sy ch o ised eal-time huma – obot e semble playi g. The collabo ative e ditio of Ca -Ca – a piece maki g ext eme simulta eous dema ds o obotic st e gth, speed a d fi e dexte ity – se ves as a demo st atio of how Mi o Me has c acked this classic impossible t ia gle.
CADA, Mi o Me’s self-developed music embodied fou datio model, gives VIVA its cog itive “mi d.” If VIVA co stitutes the physical body that b i gs music to life, CADA is the b ai that g a ts it musical i tellige ce. The i teg ated pipeli e closes the full loop spa i g music comp ehe sio , compositio , embodied pe fo ma ce a d feedback-d ive lea i g. A ge e al fou datio model fi st i te p ets atu al-la guage p ompts a d musical i te t. A music ge e atio module the c afts melodies a d a a geme ts. A pe fo ma ce st ategy model t a slates abst act a tistic exp essio i to co c ete fi ge i g, touch, fo ce a d timi g comma ds, which the VIVA dexte ous ha d executes o a physical pia o.
C ucially, each pe fo ma ce ma ks ot a e dpoi t, but the sta t of a lea i g cycle. The system co ti uously captu es acoustic sig als, ki ematics a d eal-wo ld playback esults, compa es outputs agai st ta get efe e ces, diag oses deviatio s a d adjusts pe fo ma ce st ategies. This establishes a co ti uous “compose-pe fo m-pe ceive-evaluate-lea ” loop. Rathe tha executi g a static task o ce, the obot accumulates embodied expe ie ce a d polishes its tech ique th ough physical i te actio , e de i g the same compositio with i c easi g efi eme t ove time. Viva la Vida: Nueva Vida, p emie ed at the lau ch eve t, was co-c eated by the fou datio model i dialogue with huma collabo ato s, the i depe de tly p actised a d fi e-tu ed by the obot to shape its ow a tistic i te p etatio .
Mi o Me views music as a high-ba ie sce a io weavi g togethe cog itio , c eativity, exp essio a d p ecise ma ipulatio -a ideal testbed fo explo i g deep fusio betwee fou datio models a d obotic ha dwa e. Ge e al fou datio models delive u de sta di g, easo i g a d i te active capability; domai -specific models apidly t a slate ge e al i tellige ce i to p ofessio al expe tise; obotic actuato s execute actio s i the physical wo ld; o goi g se so y feedback e ables co ti uous skill imp oveme t. This f amewo k cha ts a key di ectio fo the futu e of obotics. By sta ti g with music comp ehe sio a d live pe fo ma ce, the team aims to equip obots with b oade capabilities: to u de sta d, c eate, act, i te act a d keep lea i g.
To g a t machi es a body; to let cog itio eme ge f om embodime t; a d to make that cog itio audible. The VIVA × CADA milesto e p opels obots beyo d p e-sc ipted moveme t towa d a tistic exp essio , t a spo ti g a tificial i tellige ce out of digital spaces a d i to ou physical eality.
It has i depe de tly developed the wo ld’s o ly softwa e fo full-body coupled dy amics desig fo obots, substa tially expa di g pe fo ma ce limits. Its full-size huma oid obot Bolt featu es golde huma body p opo tio s a d ushe s i a e a whe e huma oid obots each speeds of 10 m/s.
Mi o Me has p oposed the Dist ibuted Embodied I tellige ce A chitectu e (DEIA). This f amewo k co ects la ge la guage models, ve tical fou datio al models a d obot bodies to i teg ate cog itio a d motio . Its VIVA × CADA system (dexte ous ha d × music embodied la ge model) e ables eal-time fou -ha d pia o duets betwee huma s a d obots fo the fi st time. DEIA e dows models with a physical body, allowi g ideas to be hea d, b i gi g the beauty of tech ology i to daily life.
Led by D . Ji Yo gbi , a post-95s esea che , Mi o Me has bee featu ed by majo media outlets i cludi g CCTV-1, CCTV I te atio al, South Ko ea’s KBS a d B azil’s TV Globo. Havi g secu ed multiple ou ds of fi a ci g, the compa y’s p oducts a e ow i mass p oductio a d delive y. Mi o Me is u de goi g apid busi ess expa sio .
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