You can go down the stairs with the ball! Tencent wheel-legged robot exposure: new tactile interaction

time:2023-03-24 09:24:30 source:scripttoolbox.com author:Hard disk
You can go down the stairs with the ball! Tencent wheel-legged robot exposure: new tactile interaction

On September 9, Tencent Robotics X Robotics Lab announced the latest research progress of its wheel-legged robot Ollie. Compared with its debut, it added tactile interaction and a more stable "two-wheeled leg" action. From the official demonstration video, Ollie has been able to "dribble the ball" and move up and down stairs, jumping and striding. (Photo from: Roboticsx WeChat public account) Among the various robot forms currently under active research, the development prospects of quadruped robots are relatively clear. The products of various manufacturers have basically reached the initial commercial stage. In contrast , the research progress of wheel-legged robots is relatively slow. In the latest demonstration video of the wheel-legged robot Ollie released by Tencent Robotics X Robotics Laboratory, the newly added tactile sensor enables it to achieve tactile interaction and collision perception. Carrying spherical objects up and down stairs, jumping, stepping and other movements remain stable and progress rapidly. (Photo from: Roboticsx WeChat public account) The slow progress of wheel-legged robot research is inseparable from its difficulty. Compared with quadruped robots, wheel-legged robots have higher requirements on the accuracy of the vision system, integrated mechanical joints and various control units, and the main stability problem also has many technical problems that are being overcome. Although Ollie has been very flexible in the presentation, it is not enough to put it into business scenarios. (Image from: Roboticsx WeChat official account) In the practical scenarios of wheel-legged robots expected by the industry, robots in this form need to achieve at least "off-road" level mobility, which means that Ollie not only needs to be barrier-free going up and down stairs, but also It is necessary to flexibly travel through mountains, gravel, and depressions to complete the task of disaster relief. In addition, in industrial scenarios, the wheel-legged robot combined with the robotic arm also needs to maintain a balance in the delivery and transportation of goods, which Ollie needs to continue to work on. Of course, the most important advantage of wheel-legged robots in actual combat scenarios is that they are fast enough and very power-saving. When put into commercial operation, it will save a lot of costs for users. (Image from: Roboticsx WeChat public account) However, there is no need to be disappointed by the current wheel-legged robots. After all, in the early stage of research, people thought that wheel-legged robots could never achieve "flexible movement". Few people in the industry are impressed, this is already no small achievement. With the deepening of research, wheel-legged robots will try to be put into the commercial field within a few years. Although they do not match the needs of ordinary consumers, their related technologies, such as collision perception and touch trajectory shape perception Functions such as recognition and recognition can also be used in more fields, which is quite worth looking forward to. (Cover image from: Roboticsx WeChat public account)

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