Foreign Media: China Leads Dramatically in Humanoid Robot Competition with Patent Numbers and Cost Advantages
According to the latest "Robotics Annual" from Morgan Stanley, in the past five years, China has far surpassed the United States in the number of patents related to humanoid robots, five times that of the United States.
Data shows that China has obtained 7,705 patents for humanoid robots, while the United States has 1,561, followed by Japan with 1,102, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has approximately 1,100.
The report was completed by Morgan Stanley's Global Embodied AI team, emphasizing China's significant cost advantage in the supply chain of humanoid robots. Taking Tesla's Optimus second generation as an example, if China were not involved, the overall supply chain cost would nearly triple: the cost of actuators would rise from about $22,000 to $58,000, the cost of chips and software would increase from about $3,000 to $7,000, and the total material cost of the entire machine would surge from about $46,000 to $131,000. The costs of key components such as dexterous hands, visual systems, and batteries would also rise sharply in tandem.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1852088928585740/
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