Humanoid Robot Pilots Kart in Symbiosis Robotics Demo

Symbiosis Robotics unveiled a demonstration video of its bipedal humanoid robot piloting a kart. The achievement marks the first systematic exhibition of the company's progress in developing humanoid robots with full-body intelligence. The company plans to expand future tests to include mobile manipulation, high-precision visual alignment, contact force control, and complex sequential tasks. The approach differentiates itself through the Direct Perception-Control Model, which eliminates traditional intermediate movement representations. Rather than generating trajectories that need to be tracked by separate systems, the model directly maps visual inputs, language, body state, and feedback into executable commands for joints and hands. The Symbiotic Attention mechanism allows perception and control to influence each other, ensuring that task understanding accounts for the robot's physical limitations. In the demonstration, the Unitree humanoid robot coordinated eyes, hands, and feet: controlling the accelerator with the right foot, executing quick turns when leaving curves, and integrating vision, precise accelerator control, and driving semantics. Symbiosis Robotics was founded by Ding Pengxiang, a doctorate graduate developed in collaboration between Zhejiang University and Xihu University, focusing on embodied intelligence and end-to-end action generation. The company aims to address a structural challenge in robotics: models that understand tasks but fail to execute them reliably.