![[Industry Case] Bipedal Humanoid Robot Development Cycle Shortened by 40%! How Leading Integrators Achieve Rapid Breakthroughs with APQ’s “cerebrum and cerebellum” Solution](/style/global/img/img_45.jpg)
From October 2025 to January 2026, a leading domestic humanoid robot integrator collaborated closely with APQ. Based on the AGX Orin + Intel "cerebrum and cerebellum" collaborative architecture, they completed the development and debugging of a new-generation bipedal humanoid robot prototype within just four months, reducing the overall development cycle by 40% compared to traditional methods.
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Customer background and core challenges
Customer Profile
A leading domestic enterprise in the research and integration of bipedal humanoid robots, focusing on the field of high-end bionic robots, with products covering multiple scenarios such as scientific research and education, special operations, and commercial services.
Core Pain Point
- Long development cycle: In traditional solutions, modules such as motion control, environmental perception, and decision planning are provided by different suppliers, and integration debugging takes up to 8-12 months.
- Difficulty in system collaboration: Biped robots need " cerebrum" (decision-making) and " cerebellum" (control) to achieve millisecond level collaboration, and traditional separation architecture is difficult to support efficient interaction between real-time balance and multimodal awareness.
- High cost of algorithm migration: The migration and optimization of algorithms from simulation to real machine often require repeated adaptation to different hardware interfaces, which slows down the overall progress.
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APQ Solution
AGX Orin+Intel " cerebrum and cerebellum " Collaborative Architecture
1. Scheme design phase (October 2025)
Requirement alignment:
Jointly review 13 core requirements, including real-time gait control frequency ≥ 1kHz, multi-sensor synchronization accuracy ≤ 40 μ s, support for ROS 2 and custom middleware dual-mode, etc.
Scheme customization:
- The main control layer adopts AGX Orin+Intel cerebrum and cerebellum fusion controller, integrating x86 high-performance decision unit and real-time control unit, achieving the integration of "perception-decision-control".
- Deploy Intel I5 1350P as a joint coprocessor in the execution layer, responsible for servo control and local adaptive adjustment of 28 joints.
- The communication is based on Gigabit TSN (Time Sensitive Network), ensuring that the latency between AGX Orin and x86 cerebellum is less than 35 μ s.
2. Rapid deployment phase (November-December 2025)
- Hardware plug and play: Standard electrical interfaces directly adapt to customers' existing servo drives and sensors, reducing cable customization time.
- Ready to use software out of the box: pre installed Ubuntu 22.04 and ROS 2 systems, built-in bipedal robot basic function package, customers can complete basic motion configuration within 3 days.
- Efficient collaborative debugging: APQ provides "on-site+remote" dual line support to quickly solve problems such as sensor calibration, greatly reducing on-site debugging time.
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Key achievement: Development cycle shortened by 40%
Comparison of Development Timelines
Significant performance improvement
- Real time control: The gait control cycle has been increased from 5ms to 1ms, and the dynamic balance response speed has been increased by 80%.
- Development efficiency: The algorithm iteration speed has been improved, and customers can complete the simulation real machine verification of the new gait within 7 days (traditionally it takes 20 days).
- System stability: Continuous 72 hour load test with no faults, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) increased to 1000 hours.
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Customer feedback and industry insights
Customer Technical Director Evaluation
APQs' cerebrum and cerebellum 'architecture truly solves the pain points of robot development. AGX Orin allows us to quickly run complex navigation algorithms, while Intel's cerebellum ensures real-time joint level control. Standardized interfaces enable us to break away from low-level driver development and focus more on upper level algorithm innovation. ”
Industry Insights
1. Integrated design is becoming a trend: the " cerebrum " and "cerebellum" need to collaborate deeply, and a separate architecture has become an efficiency bottleneck.
2.Standardization creates value: Standardization of hardware interfaces and software middleware can significantly reduce integration complexity.
3.New model of ecological collaboration: Suppliers should transform into "solution partners" and deeply participate in early customer development.
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Core advantages of the APQ Solution
Technical Advantage
- Fusion architecture: AGX Orin+Intel cerebrum and cerebellum achieve unified hardware decision-making and control, avoiding data bus bottlenecks.
- Elastic Expansion: Supports different configurations from 12 joints to 32 joints, and cerebellar performance can be upgraded to I7 13700H.
- Open ecosystem: fully compatible with mainstream development environments such as ROS 2, MATLAB/Simulink, etc.
Service Advantages
- Full cycle companionship: providing joint development services from solution design to mass production support.
- Experience sharing: Based on the successful development experience of over 50 robot clients, we assist them in advancing quickly.
- Quick response: 7 × 24-hour remote diagnosis+48 hour on-site support to ensure the smooth implementation of the project.
In today's accelerating industrialization of robotics, development efficiency has become the key to competition. Through the collaborative architecture of " cerebrum and cerebellum " and deep services, APQ not only helps customers achieve a 40% reduction in development cycles, but also verifies the important value of integrated design in complex robot systems. We look forward to working with more partners to jointly promote the arrival of the embodied intelligence era.
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Post time: Jan-09-2026