A screen shot of Peng Zhihui’s video clip showing “Dummy”

A 16-minute video clip of a junior Huawei recruit creating “iron man’s” robotic arm which incorporates Huawei’s proprietary HarmonyOS went viral on Chinese social media platforms. 

Peng Zhihui, also known as “Zhihuijun” on Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili, posted the video on Thursday, showing the process and design of creating a robotic arm which he nicknames “Dummy”. It can be remotely controlled using Huawei’s 5G technology. 

According to Peng, “Dummy” is a 6-axis mini-industrial robot arm which uses Huawei’s OpenHarmony and Shengteng Atlas AI processor, with a total cost of only 10, 000 yuan ($1,552), the project has been the most complicated project Peng has undertaken so far and took him about four months to complete. 

The video later went viral on Chinese social platforms during the National Day holidays, which attracted more than 2.5 million views on and 10,000 comments on Bilibili as of press time. 

Peng joined Huawei in November 2020 through the Chinese tech giant’s so-called “Geniuses” recruitment program as an AI algorithm engineer participating in the research and design of Huawei’s Shengteng datacenter processing system. 

Huawei has been accelerating the recruitment of "geniuses" from around the world amid external pressures and an ongoing US government trade ban. 

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei will strive to attract more skilled talent from around the world during a crucial period for the company's "strategic survival and development," noting that as long as they are talented, they can join the company’s research and development efforts with a "surgical knife” in a company internal memo dated August 21. 

Global Times