Head of the Chinese autocompany XPeng spoke about plans for the production of robots. It became known from the top manager to the CNBC television channel.
Answering the question about the prospects of the consumer robots segment, He Xiaopeng [HE Xiaopeng) noticed that it could predict a massive interest in this market. In his opinion, in the foreseeable future with a planning horizon of 10-30 years, all major automakers will engage in the release of robots. Xpeng Corporation considers robots, including transport in a “low-speed environment”.
“As in the long run, robots become better and smarter, they can help us with some simple routine tasks,” said the head of Xpeng. It is specified that the company in the press is often called “Chinese Tesla”.
He Xiaopen compared robots with autonomous machines, which gradually become more complicated and more useful.
also the head of the corporation said that his company was going to create a department for the development of a flying car, which would be several hundred employees. “We want to present a flying vehicle that can take off and land vertically. This is a flying car for a small and medium height,” the entrepreneur summed up.
At the beginning of the autumn XPeng announced the release of a robot horse. The device has cameras, lidars and a processor for autonomous movement. It can also carry people.