Recently, Ubitus officially released a new generation of industrial humanoid robot Walker S1, and has entered the automobile factory practical training, and L4-class unmanned logistics vehicles, unmanned forklifts, industrial mobile robots and intelligent manufacturing management system collaborative operation, which is also the world's first humanoid robot and unmanned logistics vehicles and other collaborative operation of the industrial scene solutions.
As an important part of the solution, Walker S series industrial humanoid robots are being upgraded through continuous training and technology upgrades, and are committed to building a humanoid robot application paradigm for multi-tasking industrial scenarios from the perspective of safety, reliability, stability, practicability, high load and other industrial scenarios application requirements.
"Onboarding" the most car factory practical training, born for the application of industrial scenarios
Since this year, Ubitus has focused on key areas of the automotive, 3C and other manufacturing industries to enhance the tool operation and task execution capabilities of humanoid robots, taking the lead in the world with Dongfeng Liuzhou Automobile, Geely Automobile, FAW Hongqi, FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao, Audi FAW, BYD and other automotive enterprises, and has cross-industry cooperation with a number of leading companies in the industry, including Foxconn, Shunfeng, and achieve large-scale depth of application in the typical manufacturing scenario, and build a humanoid robot application ecosystem. Ubitus has also cooperated with a number of industry leaders, including Foxconn and Shunfeng, to realize large-scale and in-depth applications in typical manufacturing scenarios and build an ecosystem of humanoid robot applications. Up to now, Ubitus is the only humanoid robot company in the world that has announced cooperation with many automobile companies, and Walker S series has become the humanoid robot that has entered the most car factories for practical training in the world.
At present, Ubitus Walker S1 has entered BYD's factory to carry out practical training, and has realized the world's first collaborative operation of humanoid robots with unmanned logistics vehicles, unmanned forklifts, industrial mobile robots and intelligent manufacturing management systems, which has helped realize the unmanned and large-scale commercial landing of indoor and outdoor logistics scenes. This time, Walker S1 entered the practical training of BYD, which is the world's No.1 seller of new energy vehicles, marking that Ubiquitous has stepped into a new milestone of practical training of humanoid robots in factories.
The Guidelines for Talent Development Planning in Manufacturing published by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Education pointed out that in 2025, the shortage of manufacturing workers in China will be close to 30 million, with a shortfall rate of 48%. Humanoid robots are expected to alleviate the demand for labor in the manufacturing industry with their advantage of being more adaptable to unstructured environments. Based on the experience of practical training in many car factories, Ubitus has made several iterations of Walker S series in one year to meet the application requirements of industrial scenarios. At present, Walker S series has received more than 500 units of intentional orders from car factories.
Upgrade and Iterate Software and Hardware to Solve Three Key Challenges
In order to realize efficient collaboration with unmanned logistics vehicles, unmanned forklifts, industrial mobile robots and intelligent manufacturing management systems, Ubitus Walker S1 innovates and iterates on hardware performance in integrated joint technology, integrated head design and humanoid dexterity hand, so that the robot has more stable and reliable limbs and more agile and flexible operation capabilities.
In terms of integrated joint technology, Walker S1 adopts innovative rotary drive, which contains the integration and innovation of servo drive, frameless torque motor, reducer, encoder and other key components, with high performance, high torque and high integration, which effectively improves the humanoid robot's motion performance and stability level, and at the same time, makes Walker S1 realize a high degree of modularity, which can powerfully support future Meanwhile, Walker S1 is highly modularized, strongly supporting the future mass production delivery.
In terms of integrated head design, Walker S1 innovatively uses panoramic fisheye cameras at both ears for the first time, which, combined with RGBD cameras, can realize 360° safety monitoring and all-around perception of the robot's surrounding environment and operating range. In addition, the head of Walker S1 also integrates vision, light language and voice interaction, and can inform itself of the operation status and task completion in real time through different ways.
In the humanoid dexterity hand, Walker S1 is connected to the third generation of humanoid dexterity hand researched by Ubitus. With six arrays of tactile pressure sensors, it can accurately monitor the gripping strength, providing reliable hardware support for Walker S1 to perform fine operations. The dexterous hand is also equipped with a full-stack dexterous operation strategy library, which can be trained according to the generalized capability requirements of industrial scenarios to realize a wide range of universal skills. In addition, Walker S1 can replace the end-effector to realize 15 kg weight-bearing walking with both hands to meet the most common handling tasks in industrial scenarios.
In addition, Ubitus has independently developed ROSA2.0, a robot operating system application framework between the underlying operating system and the upper business application, which can dispatch the algorithm module systems deployed on the robot body on the basis of a unified internal software R&D platform to ensure the autonomy of the underlying algorithms.
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