The Robot Chassis Market Welcomes The Wind Star Close-up

Recently, the owner of a Chinese restaurant in the Netherlands made news about buying a robot waiter from China as an "anti-epidemic artifact".

The robot will say hello to the customer, and it can deliver food on two trays, and the customer needs to take the food down by himself. If there are finished dinner plates or cups, they can also be put back on the robot's tray, and the robot is responsible for sending them back. The boss is very far-sighted and no longer has to worry about keeping a safe distance of 1.5 meters between people at all times.

Among the various components of the robot, the robot chassis is the basic module for the robot to move. However, if the general company independently designs and develops the chassis, it will often face the problems of long cycle time and high cost. Therefore, there is always a market for relatively general robot chassis. Many companies at home and abroad are making efforts in this field.

Robots on the front line of domestic anti-epidemic

During the fight against the epidemic at the beginning of this year, robots stepped onto the front line of the fight against the epidemic and made many contributions to reducing crowd contact, improving medical efficiency, and assisting medical diagnosis.

The medical assistant robot can not only grasp the situation of the hospital and the epidemic situation, but also measure body temperature, and quickly identify people with abnormal body temperature in dense crowds. The artificial intelligence algorithm makes the measurement fast and accurate, and can also avoid close contact and cross-infection.

The cleaning and disinfection robot can autonomously locate the environment in the hospital, autonomously avoid dense crowds, efficiently complete cleaning tasks, and can be on duty 24 hours a day.

The intelligent transportation robot shuttles between departments and accurately delivers therapeutic drugs and medical care equipment to the destination. It is a caring assistant for medical workers.

Robots are indispensable for consulting and guiding, delivering medicine and meals, and cleaning and disinfection. They use their strong bodies to build a Great Wall to guard us. Robots join hands with humans to win this battle.

AGILE X Robotics (AGX for short) is a robotics company integrating R&D, production and sales of mobile robot platforms. It mainly produces mobile robot chassis products such as general-purpose UGV, indoor small AGV, and wire-controlled modified electric vehicles. Provide the best mobile robot solutions and services.

Disinfection is a crucial step in the prevention and control of the epidemic. However, the speed and efficiency of human disinfection are not only low, but also the personal safety of the staff cannot be guaranteed, and it is difficult to guarantee the thoroughness of disinfection. How to reduce the contact between personnel during the epidemic prevention process, reduce the infection of personnel working in epidemic prevention, and cut off the transmission route, robots have great potential. In the face of epidemic disinfection, Songling Robot developed and manufactured an intelligent disinfection robot based on reality.

Songling Robot has launched three different remote control modes to meet the needs of different scenarios, which can be used in hospitals, communities, shopping malls, parking lots, office parks, industrial parks and other scenarios.

First, it can be used with the standard version of the remote control, which is easy to use and quick to use, and can effectively improve the working environment of front-line workers.

Second, it can be used with the image transmission remote control and camera. The real-time video transmission is easy to adapt, easy to operate, and the image transmission distance can reach 200 meters.

Third, with the 4G/5G parallel driving kit and 360° high-definition dual cameras, there is no limitation on the control distance and image transmission distance, truly realizing unmanned operation.

Since the unblocking of Wuhan, Songling Robot has helped enterprises in Wuhan to resume work and assisted in disinfection and epidemic prevention. Equipped with the "5G Parallel Driving" system, remote disinfection can be carried out with a mobile phone, which greatly improves the efficiency and effectively protects the personal safety of citizens.

In addition, disinfection robots are also on duty in various places to carry out disinfection and disinfection work to provide protection for citizens.

Songling Robot is in Dongguan Songshan Lake Civic Center

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The robot chassis market is coming

Frontiers of Robotics believes that the robot chassis carries multiple functions such as robot positioning, navigation, movement, and obstacle avoidance, and is an essential and important hardware for robots. Mature, robot chassis may usher in an era of low-cost customization.

If the tracked chassis of special robots and the wheeled chassis of industrial AGV robots have not attracted the attention of the industry to robot chassis, then in the past two years, the rise of service robots represented by sweeping robots can be said to have instantly ignited various industries. Big business is passionate about it.

As we all know, a robot is a collection of various technologies and functions. Except for some software functions, other important parts are on the hardware module of the robot chassis. The robot chassis is not only a variety of sensors, machine vision, laser radar, motors The integration points of devices such as wheels also carry the basic functions of the robot itself, such as positioning, navigation, movement, and obstacle avoidance.

This is very important for service robots such as sweeping robots. The core functions and key costs of service robots are reflected on the robot chassis. Whether the chassis is good or not is directly related to the value of service robots, which in turn affects the commercial development of service robots. In view of this, many robot companies have begun to focus on the R&D and production of robot chassis.

With service robots becoming increasingly popular, the emergence of professional robot chassis research and development companies not only lowers the threshold for other companies to enter the service robot industry, but also makes breakthroughs in functions and costs, paving the way for the large-scale development of service robots the way.

At present, apart from some enterprises that are self-sufficient and do not provide them to the outside world, there are already dozens of domestic enterprises that have marketed robot chassis.

With the increasing number of companies entering the industry, many people in the industry are optimistic about the development prospects of robot chassis. On the one hand, the competition brought about by the increase of enterprises will help the industry technology to advance. On the other hand, the technological development of robot chassis can give birth to the emergence of mobile robots such as competitions, opening up a larger application market for the development of the industry.

Judging from the companies entering now, although there are also chassis serving industrial and special robots, most of them still focus on service robots. This is because the hot development of service robots has brought strong downstream demand.

In addition, different robot products have different requirements for the chassis. For example, sweeping robots need a low-cost laser radar navigation solution, other service robots need a flexible and safe laser radar + vision navigation solution, and industrial AGVs More accurate navigation solutions are needed, and different needs call for the development of the industrialization of machine chassis to meet them.

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Future Trends: Commercial Exploration of Songling Robotics

However, under the circumstances that the development of robot chassis is gradually improving, the industrialization of service robots is still not optimistic. The reason is that the cost of existing robot chassis is too high and the pertinence is not enough.

It is understood that the price of robot chassis on the market is usually between 20,000 and 100,000. For robots with higher functional requirements, the price of the chassis is relatively higher. It is always impossible to find a balance between cost and function, and the high cost It makes it difficult for many companies and consumers to afford, which is why many companies choose to make their own chassis. In the future, if the robot chassis industry wants to make a breakthrough and drive the commercialization of service robots, cost reduction is an important development direction.

At the same time, the current service robot chassis generally use a universal chassis, but in fact, many downstream companies have different requirements for the production of the chassis. According to the difference in the scene, the requirements for the shape and size are also different. Under such circumstances, In the future, as the cost problem is solved, customized chassis production for different customer needs may also be one of the development directions.

Songling robot has landed in many scenarios, including inspection, desert greening, education, etc.

inspection

The field of inspection is currently the most widely used field. After customers add sensors such as lidar, IMU, ultrasonic radar, face recognition, and alarms to the chassis, the robot can be used in chemical plant inspections, street inspections, and warehouse inspections. Inspection and other places.

inspection robot

For example, Guangzhi Microchip has developed an intelligent inspection vehicle with completely autonomous intelligent path planning and navigation through Songling SCOUT. Through local intelligent video analysis technology, it can realize alarm functions for abnormal intrusions, fights and other dangerous situations.

Guangzhi Microchip—Intelligent inspection vehicle

Based on the Songling Zhixing navigation kit, a construction site inspection vehicle that can navigate autonomously on the construction site and realize path planning has been developed. Through sensors such as laser radar, ultrasonic radar, and camera, it can realize video shooting and recording, face recognition, automatic obstacle avoidance, Automatic trajectory inspection and other functions can patrol the construction site day and night, work around the clock, and reduce labor costs.

Construction site inspection vehicle

desert greening

The team of teacher Zhang Xinyu from the Intelligent Robot Motion and Vision Laboratory of the School of Software Engineering of East China Normal University designed and developed a "tree-planting robot cluster" by installing robotic arms and other sensors on SCOUT to control land desertification and help ecological restoration. The robot swarm has been tested for planting trees in Alashan, Inner Mongolia, and has attracted the attention of CCTV reports.

tree planting robot

5G application

With the deployment of 5G applications, Songling Robotics and Huawei Honor launched a 5G mobile phone remote control disinfection robot. Using the Honor V30 as the control terminal, through the blessing of 5G signals, it is easy to realize remote control for thousands of miles, without the need for personnel to be present, which effectively improves the working environment of front-line workers and realizes zero-distance contact.

remote control disinfection robot

Songling FreeWalker is a remote over-the-line-of-sight driving solution based on 4-5G mobile network. Based on the characteristics of large bandwidth and low delay of 4-5G network, users can control mobile robots over-the-line of sight to complete complex on-site tasks, regardless of distance , environment and other factors. The kit is available in two versions: a cockpit version for dedicated fixed-position remote piloting, and a portable version for mobile or on-site remote piloting. At present, the FreeWalker kit has been deployed in the operator's 5G exhibition hall, enabling consumers to more intuitively see the revolutionary application scenarios brought by 5G.

Based on Songling robot mobile chassis and 4-5G remote driving suit, Weston Robot has successfully developed an unmanned disinfection robot suitable for indoor and outdoor use. This robot can complete remote unmanned disinfection work. This achievement has been widely reported by the media as an advanced anti-epidemic measure. And was cited by mathwork as a case.

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Weston Robot——disinfection robot

educate

Up to now, Songling Robot has reached cooperation with more than 100 universities at home and abroad, such as Tsinghua University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University, etc., and has established school-enterprise cooperation with South University of Science and Technology, Dongguan University of Technology and other universities. In the field of mobile robot chassis, Carry out research on topics such as motion control, machine perception, and ROS open source. Songling Robot has now started the construction of a global ROS open source ecosystem, and is committed to creating a first-class ROS learning and communication platform for schools and scientific research users.

Use case of a university

Recently, Wei Jidong, founder and CEO of Songling Robotics, said in an interview that with the development of technology, mobile robots with superior performance will replace humans in more complex and dangerous work scenarios. Mobile robots are the legs and feet of all robots. The responsibilities assumed will grow ever greater. From remote sensing control to automatic control to 5G remote control, whether it is monitoring inspection, teaching simulation, logistics transportation, industrial application, detection and exploration, agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery and other fields, robots can easily operate.

In the future, Songling Robot will maximize the flexibility of mobile robots and semi-automatic technology to become a truly competent and qualified "foot" of robots.