Since last year, the global and domestic various types of humanoid robots have been shining. In January this year, a Nanjing enterprise also made a big deal - theNanjing Tianchuang Electronic Technology Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "Tianchuang Robotics") released the world's first explosion-proof humanoid robot "Tiankui 1".Pushing into high-risk scenarios such as chemical plants and emergency response, the brightly brushed screen.
The year 2024 is known as "the first year of commercialization of humanoid robots". With the accelerated evolution of technology and the accelerated gathering of capital, intelligent and flexible humanoid robots have become the new wind port of industrial competition.
Nanjing has a solid foundation for the robotics industry and has successfully advanced into the first national square, with a number of companies such as Tianchuang Robotics entering the field of humanoid robots. The city is actively embracing this future industry and accelerating the layout of the humanoid robot track.
Positive Layout Array
"Nanjing-made" humanoid robots are becoming an army
"What's so great about Tiankui 1?
"It is the world's first humanoid robot to receive IIC T6 level explosion-proof certification, and has undergone a lot of special treatment and modification, whether from the motion structure, power supply system, electrical wiring, etc., so that it can operate in explosive environments such as hydrogen and methane." Liu Shuang, chairman of Tianchuang Robotics, said.
Four-wheeled eight-wheel drive explosion-proof wheeled architecture, there is a pair of stout and powerful arms, under the command of the intelligent brain, so that the "Tiankui 1" walk up quite stable, and then bumps do not fall off the chain. "As a robot + AI algorithms as the core product services in the energy, municipal and other industries of science and technology enterprises, is to introduce the most cutting-edge robotics technology into the field of industrial intelligent operation and maintenance that we are engaged in." Liu Shuang said.
"Fierce and flexible" is one of the important labels of "Tiankui 1".It adopts dual-arm operation, but strengthened end load, single-arm horizontal full deployment form end load up to 15 kg, as "Mr. Mighty" can carry industrial valves and other heavy parts, in the industrial scene of high torque, high load operation in a big way.
At the same time, there's a trick hidden in the waist of "Tiankui No. 1".The ability to fold and lift the arm so that the arm is vertically unfolded to a maximum end height of up to 3 meters, which allows it to reach a vertical working height of 3 meters, greatly increasing the requirements for frequent high level work.It also has long range, multi-terrain adaptation, and multi-sensor fusion navigation to meet the problem of accessibility in industrial complex environments.
Emerging forces accelerate breakthrough, leading enterprises are not willing to lag behind
In the face of the rising tide of humanoid robots, for seven consecutive years, Nanjing Exton Automation Co., Ltd. has been sitting at the top of the Chinese market in terms of shipments of industrial robots of national brands, driven by the core technology, and is actively seizing the humanoid robot wind.In September last year, Exton Kudrow launched the first self-developed humanoid robot, with all core components independently researched and developed, and became the first project directly invested by Jiangsu Province Strategic Emerging Industries Mother Fund.
"This robot has a total of 44 degrees of freedom throughout its body and has been equipped with voice interaction, visual perception, and intelligent material pick-and-place operation capabilities. Currently, the R&D team is accelerating the development ofStriving to iteratively launch the second generation of humanoid robots in April or May of this year.able to make a big difference on specific industrial manufacturing scenarios." The head of Exton's Kudrow R&D team revealed.
In recent years, Nanjing has actively laid out in the field of humanoid robots, and also gathered a number of high-quality enterprises, such as Jicui Zhizao and Azure Technology. Among them, Cuisui Zhizao is the only enterprise involved in electro-hydraulic servo humanoid robot in China.
Highlighting Scenario Thinking
Industrial environments can work, home services can accompany
Found that the current is too high, automatically open the cabinet to pull the gate, self-judgment to solve ...... in the "Tiankui 1" this humanoid robot design and development of the beginning, Tianchuang Robotics is to be able to solve the customer in the industrial scene of the actual "pain points! "The core is the complexity of the operating environment and the operation of high precision requirements of these two points.
"Previous inspection robots can only find problems but can not solve the problem, the development of Tiankui series of industrial explosion-proof heavy-duty humanoid robots, we prefer to call it industrial hazardous environments can work robots." Liu Shuang introduction.
Taking the landing scene as the key core, Tianchuang Robotics utilizes a lot of experience accumulated over the years in designing structures that enable robots to survive reliably for a long time in scenes of wide temperature and high humidity, strong magnetism and dust, flammability and explosiveness, to improve the high protection level of "Tiankui No. 1", making it the world's first explosion-proof humanoid robot, and adopts a combination of remote operation and pre-training to solve the problem of workability in industrial sites at this stage. The combination of remote operation and pre-training has been adopted to solve the problem of workability in industrial sites at this stage.
Humanoid robots are robots with humanoid form, motion, function and intelligence. Humanoid form and motion make them more adaptable and versatile when working in a human environment. Currently, humanoid robots come in a variety of forms, and in the choice between footed and wheeled, Skytron Robotics is more of a prominent scene thinker.
"Foot-type currently in the walking stability, range, explosion-proof structure design and so on there are still some challenges, more suitable for lightweight C-end scene." Liu Shuang believes that in the service of the industrial scene wheeled can cover more than 90% operation scene, so at the beginning of the R & D center of gravity above the waist, focusing on the attack on the operating ability of the arms and load capacity.
Also highlighting scenario thinking is Collective Wisdom.At the 2024 World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, the company made its debut with a semi-humanoid service robot, which is expected to be applicable to intelligent recreation, family escort, medical education and other industries in the future.
"The core of humanoid robots mainly lies in the athletic ability and the ability of collaborative operation of both arms." According to Luo Minzhou, chairman of Ciba Wisdom, "Humanoid robots are more likely to take the lead in the future in areas such as home services, agricultural picking, and hazardous materials handling."
"We want to promote the explosion-proof humanoid robot to more application scenarios." Liu Shuang said that from Tianchuang Robotics, theHumanoid robotics applications on the to B side are worth the investment and persistence, and may even be able to achieve scale on the ground earlier than humanoid robots on the to C side.
A new window of opportunity for breakthroughs
Multi-faceted efforts to seize the "new blue ocean"
"'Tiankui 1' immediately attracted attention after the release, many units contacted, hoping to start cooperation, dozens of investment institutions invited to communicate the next step in the financing plan." Liu Shuang said.
As the ultimate goal in the field of robotics, humanoid robots are becoming the focus of global technological competition.After the "Year of Commercialization", is it really the "Year of Explosion" for humanoid robots?
Currently, with the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and other key technologies, the performance and functionality of humanoid robots have been significantly improved, which provides a broad prospect for the application of humanoid robots in a number of industries, such as intelligent manufacturing, medical care, and home services.
At present, the development of humanoid robots has entered a new window of breakthrough, entering the stage of productization and industrialization. The market prospects for the future development of humanoid robots are favored by government departments, industry enterprises, professionals and so on.
The new wind mouth has arrived, how to seize the first opportunity?
Aiming to create a "city of robots" goal, Nanjing issued a "three-year action plan to promote the high-quality development of the robotics industry", focusing on creating "1 + N + 1" machine system. Among them.The last "1" represents the forward-looking layout of the humanoid robot industry, comprehensively promoting the development of humanoid robot components such as "brain", "cerebellum" and "limb". The company will comprehensively promote the research and development of humanoid robot "brain", "cerebellum", "limb" and other components, construct a generalized platform for humanoid robots, and initially establish the manufacturing capacity for the small-lot production of humanoid robots.
In Nanjing, around the robot machine, key components, system integration and application of the whole industry chain, clustered around the robot R & D and production enterprises nearly a hundred, more and more companies in the humanoid robot this emerging track continued to make efforts.
Among them, Jicui has developed a domestic ultra-compact high-outbreak electro-hydraulic servo system, which can fully meet the current technological needs of electro-hydraulic servo humanoid robots.
"Currently, Ceti Smart is launching R&D breakthroughs in the fields of key components of humanoid robots and ultra-realistic bionic face and human hands, and will launch the first highly dynamic ultra-realistic humanoid bipedal robot in China." Luo Minzhou, chairman of the board of directors of Jixi Zhizao, revealed.
To seize the new track, technology development is the key.Nanjing has rich industrial talent reserves and strong R&D advantages, and the number of well-known universities and research institutions ranks among the top in the country, with great potential to realize the efficient transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and other colleges and universities are equipped with key robotics-related specialties.
Seizing the new blue ocean also requires the creation of a comprehensive and diversified regional innovation ecosystem.The person in charge of the Economic Development Bureau of Jiangbei New Area Administrative Committee said that it will be based on the first-mover advantage in the field of humanoid robots, and will continue to strengthen policy support and services to help enterprises accelerate the formation of stronger core competitiveness. At the same time, optimize the gradient cultivation system, with leading enterprises as the traction, to attract more high-quality upstream and downstream enterprises to gather, enhance the stability and competitiveness of the humanoid robotics industry chain supply chain.
"At present, we have set up a 500 million yuan humanoid robot industry investment fund in Jiangbei New District to accelerate the promotion of humanoid robots in Nanjing and Jiangsu industry landing." Luo Minzhou revealed.
