The Companion toy is imminent.

According to a rumour circulating on 2 july, chinese e-commerce giant jd.com has been preparing its embodied artificial intelligence models for release and already has over 10 robotics companies as partners under its embodiedai brand.

The rumour is that the embodied artificial intelligence focuses on a human and a toy at its centre.

Sensetime’s educational chess robot, and engine ai’s pm01, among others.

The buzz around jd.com’s foray into the embodied ai field has been gaining traction since as early as march.

At the time, it was reported to be mostly aimed at home use.

In may, the b+ round of investment of the chinese robotics company agibot was participated in byjd.com.

By domestic ai models such as huawei’s pangulm as the ‘brain’ and use a model-specific ‘cerebellum’, which is sometimes developed by the robotics company.

As experts , embodied ai is still in an “exploration” phase, comparable to the pre-gpt-3 stage it is worth watching to see if the new products will be new or not.