Humanoid Robot Achieves Milestone in Autonomously Opening Car Door

• Mornine used reinforcement learning and onboard sensors to open a car door without scripts or a remote control.
• The deployment took place in a live Chery dealership, marking a first for humanoid robots in commercial service settings.

AiMOGA Robotics has announced that its humanoid robot, Mornine, successfully opened a car door on its own at a Chery dealership in China. The robot identified the handle, adjusted its position, and applied coordinated force without scripts or remote control. The company says this is the first time a service robot has performed such an operation in a commercial setting.

"Opening a car door may seem simple," the company noted in an official press release , "but in robotics, it marks a shift: from simulation to service, from command to capability."

Mornine relied on 3D LiDAR, depth and wide-angle cameras, and a visual-language model to perceive the door’s location and position in real time. It learned to identify the door handle through millions of reinforcement learning cycles in simulation, then transferred that model to real-world deployment.

"We never explicitly told the robot what a door handle is," said the engineering team in an official press release. "It learned to focus on that region by itself."

Morine is active in several Chery 4S locations where her role is to greet customers, introduces vehicles, and delivers items.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

Mornine didn’t follow a script or get hard-coded for this task. She figured it out. That’s the real headline. Her robot brain, a trained AI system, learned how to spot a handle, reach for it, and open a car door she’d never seen before. And then she did it, for real, in a dealership.

Source: PR Newswire / AiMOGA Robotics