Meituan Robot Research Institute 2024 Academic Annual Meeting and Low‑Altitude Flight Challenge
At its December 27, 2024 academic annual meeting in Shenzhen, Meituan Robot Research Institute showcased a year of progress in embodied intelligence and large‑model robotics, honored 109 university teams from 74 schools in the 2nd Low‑Altitude Economy Intelligent Flight Management Challenge, highlighted collaborations with more than 20 top universities that yielded over 40 joint projects and papers at premier conferences, announced a city‑wide digital‑twin low‑altitude simulation using real drone data, and outlined future plans for expanding the challenge platform, offering internships, creating innovation scholarships, and inviting external research proposals, while a round‑table of leading experts discussed commercialization prospects.
On December 27, 2024, Meituan Robot Research Institute held its academic annual meeting in Shenzhen, reviewing the institute’s 2024 progress and inviting top scholars to discuss embodied intelligence and large‑model robotics.
The meeting featured the award ceremony of the 2nd Low‑Altitude Economy Intelligent Flight Management Challenge, with 109 teams from 74 universities; first, second, third prizes and several special awards were announced.
Vice‑president and institute chairman Mao Yinian reported collaborations with over 20 universities (Tsinghua, Shanghai Jiao‑Tong, Harbin Institute of Technology, HKUST, etc.), resulting in 40+ joint projects and papers accepted at ICRA, IROS, AAAI, ACL, ECCV and other top conferences.
In partnership with Shenzhen City Transportation Planning Design Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the institute is executing a city‑wide digital‑twin low‑altitude simulation project, using massive real‑flight data from Meituan drones.
Future plans include extending the challenge platform, providing internship slots, establishing innovation scholarships for outstanding master and PhD students, and inviting external research proposals.
A round‑table forum gathered experts from Tsinghua, Galaxy General and academia to explore challenges and commercialization prospects of embodied intelligence.
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