Contactless Food Delivery Robots Are Booming, And Han's Anti-epidemic Robots Have Become A New Force in Technological Epidemic Prevention

Preface

In response to the actual needs of epidemic prevention and control, the STAR-L contactless meal distribution robot developed by Han's Robotics can not only isolate the source of infection from the source, but also deliver hot boxed meals to people in quarantined hotels through human-machine collaboration. It can also effectively avoid the risk of cross-infection, reduce the manpower burden, ensure the efficient operation of the hotel, and become another "main force" after medical staff, community workers, volunteers and other epidemic prevention teams.

Special meal delivery robots during the epidemic

During this epidemic, robots have shown obvious advantages in hotel meal delivery during the epidemic prevention and control period: they can avoid cross-infection caused by human contact, effectively isolate the source of infection, improve the efficiency of epidemic prevention work, and ensure the safety of epidemic prevention personnel.

Then, it is inevitable to use robot innovation to serve these urgent special scene needs.

However, in the hotel environment, there are many difficulties in achieving contactless meal delivery. The first question is how to achieve direct and indirect contact between people and between people and objects?

Through investigation, Han's Robotics found that in order to achieve a contactless effect, most epidemic prevention hotels use a shelf design, that is, a loading platform for placing objects is placed at the door of each isolation room. When delivering materials, the staff will place the items on the shelf, and after placing them and leaving, they will notify the guests to pick them up. Conversely, residents will also place garbage on the table to facilitate the staff to collect and dispose of them uniformly.

In the meal delivery process of this special scenario, how can robots be used to achieve fully automated loading and delivery process integration? Han's Robotics chose to pioneer the introduction of a new form of composite robots into the hotel meal delivery scene.

Overcoming difficulties, epidemic prevention robots are quickly put into use

The composite robot enters the hotel, the robot chassis can realize the rapid transportation of items, and the robotic arm completes the collection and delivery. This is undoubtedly a good connection, but there are many technical difficulties that cannot be ignored, mainly concentrated in the three aspects of autonomous positioning and navigation, automatic obstacle avoidance, and autonomous meal distribution.

First of all, since the hotel meal delivery robot is mainly for hotel scenarios, the robot needs to move along the route to the designated destination in the complex environment of the hotel, and at the same time carry objects of a certain weight, and finally deliver the meal to the designated location.

STAR-L epidemic area contactless meal delivery robot can smoothly match various hotel elevator control and hotel management systems due to its self-developed architecture and intelligent planning algorithm. When delivering on the same floor, the robot can load 40 boxes of food at a time, and the maximum capacity can be loaded to 48 boxes at a time (using soup, rice, and vegetable integrated lunch boxes), which can be completed in about 15 minutes (if you need to take the elevator, complete the delivery from the first floor to the designated floor, which takes about 20 minutes).

When delivering across floors, the robot can manage 80 rooms on two floors at a time, and the delivery is completed in 40 minutes, which meets the requirements for timely delivery. If multiple robots are used, the intelligent scheduling system of Daju Robot also supports large-scale scheduling of multiple robots to ensure efficient operation of the system.

Secondly, in the narrow activity space and different light and dark spaces of the epidemic prevention hotel, the accuracy of the robot's obstacle avoidance and recognition functions is required to be high.

In the hardware module of the STAR-L contactless meal delivery robot in the epidemic area, according to the hotel environment requirements, by adopting a motion chassis with laser SLAM navigation, it has achieved a strong comprehensive environmental perception capability, and can avoid obstacles and locate with high precision.

In autonomous meal delivery, the robot is not only required to accurately identify and grasp lunch boxes or objects of various shapes, but also to be able to assist in locating objects and placement locations based on machine vision or force sensors, so as to ultimately achieve "fast, accurate and stable" placement, which places strong and reliable performance requirements on the collaborative robot body, vision system and force-controlled gripper.

The Han's Hotel meal delivery robot can not only accurately determine the location, size and distance of obstacles from the robot, but also identify the placement location, thus laying a good foundation for meal delivery actions, reflecting good directional directivity and high scene focus.

More details behind

Looking deeper, the chassis plus manipulator solution of the STAR-L contactless catering robot in epidemic areas of Han's Robotics can be quickly deployed and applied because 90% of the components adopted are independently developed by Han's Robotics, which brings very good software and hardware versatility and integration to the robot as a whole. The body and arm can perfectly match and the performance is more stable.

Thanks to pure self-development, from the appearance, the hotel meal delivery robot has a very compact design structure, with an overall size of 950*650*1500 length*width*height (including manipulator height), which makes it just the right size to adapt to more than 80% of the hotel sizes in China. At the same time, due to the small overall footprint, the robot can achieve fast and accurate position perception and automatic obstacle avoidance functions.

As for meal delivery, the STAR-L contactless meal distribution robot of Han's Robotics also considers the dining aspect. Depending on the region, the insulation function can be added. The large-capacity battery not only ensures the robot's 6-8 hours of endurance, but also supports the internal transmission system, which can automatically lift and lower items such as lunch boxes, maximize the use of the vehicle body space, and store more lunch boxes in a limited space.

Conclusion and Outlook

In the anti-epidemic battlefield, Han's Robotics is telling people with an answer different from industrial applications that robots have unlimited possibilities in the development of industry and society.

Since its establishment in 2017, Han's Robotics, which has a strong sense of social responsibility, is relying on its strong product power to achieve innovation in combination with multiple demand scenarios, leading the industry to develop more new products.

While increasing the research and development of innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, Han's Robotics continues to innovate, live up to its mission, and continuously expand the breadth and depth of serving the people. The design and development of socially responsible products will continue to break through new levels and promote intelligent robots to a broader application market.

At present, Han's Robotics has been applied in many industries such as industry, medical care, logistics, education, and services. So far, it has launched multiple series of robot products and has been widely used in automated integrated production lines, assembly, picking, welding, grinding, painting and other fields. It has been successfully exported to more than 100 countries and regions including Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea.

Han's Robotics believes that the future of collaborative robot technology must not only be in a small factory, but in a wider world, serving the people, and human-machine collaboration will open up unlimited possibilities in the future.

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