At present, industrial robots, service robots, special robots, etc. are accelerating their integration into all walks of life, profoundly changing the way of production and lifestyle.
In Changsha, there is a high-profile enterprise - Hunan Super Robot Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Super Robot"). It originated from the National University of Defense Technology and has the earliest professional team dedicated to the research and development of health service robots in China. In recent years, with its strong R&D strength, the company has successively launched a number of popular robot products such as "Super Xiaokang", "Super Little Tiger" and "Xiangjiang No. 1", which quickly launched brand awareness, not only ranking in the forefront of the field of health robots, but also successfully selected as a national-level specialized and new "little giant" enterprise. On the 19th, the reporter walked into this company and felt the strong momentum of its vigorous development.
On the 19th, the reporter came to the super robot company, and in the depths of the exhibition hall, a health escort humanoid robot called "Xiangjiang No. 1" came into view. It is snow-white, the round display screen forms a smart "face", there is a pair of playful white "ears", although the robotic arm is similar to humans, but it has more flexible joints, and a sense of technology and futurism is coming.
"Xiangjiang Xiangjiang, hand me the water." As soon as the order was issued, "Xiangjiang No. 1" responded quickly, accurately stretched out its arm to the bottled water on the piano, grabbed it steadily, and handed it to the staff on the side.
At the beginning of this year, Super Robotics officially released the humanoid robot "Xiangjiang No. 1". According to reports, "Xiangjiang No. 1" shoulders the important task of all-round health escort such as "medical assistance, walking assistance, entertainment assistance, assistance, meal assistance, convenience assistance, and bathing assistance". In terms of "medical assistance", it can provide physical sign testing and consultation services, as well as massage physiotherapy and rehabilitation training; In terms of "mobility assistance", it can assist the user to get up, turn over or move; In terms of "fun", you can perform dances, play the piano, etc., to add interest to people's lives. Functions such as assistance, meal assistance, toilet assistance, and bathing assistance mainly provide all-round support for people with reduced mobility.
"To build this high-end humanoid robot, it is difficult to tackle technical problems, and it is still in the intense debugging stage. In the process of research and development, we integrate multi-modal environment perception technology and computing, etc., so that it can accurately capture the surrounding environment information. At the same time, an end-to-end reinforcement learning method based on large models is introduced to train robots in a virtual reality environment. Xiao Xiangjiang, founder and chairman of Super Robot, introduced that "Xiangjiang No. 1" has broken through the three major technologies of "specialization, lightweight, and localization" of humanoid robots on the basis of overcoming the general technology of humanoid robots.
In terms of general technology, we have joined hands with Xiangjiang Laboratory to successfully realize the three-dimensional precise positioning and control of humanoid robot limbs based on the multimodal AI pre-training model. In terms of specialization technology, it has in-depth cooperation with Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, and integrates the large model of medical and health verticals to accurately meet the needs of health escorts; The lightweight technology cooperates with Jinbo Co., Ltd. to use special new materials to reduce the weight of the humanoid robot and improve its flexibility and endurance; In terms of localization technology, it cooperates with Kirin Xin'an, based on the domestic operating system, integrates domestic chips, etc., to achieve all-round independent control.
Health robots are used in hospitals, schools, and other scenarios
As the aging population intensifies, there is a growing demand for health services. In line with market demand, the product functions of super robots are becoming more and more diversified.
Facing the field of national health, Super Robot has developed more than 20 series of products, such as baby care robots, children's morning examination robots, adolescent physical examination robots, and middle-aged and elderly health companion robots, forming a product matrix and solutions covering the whole life cycle of health service robots.
Among them, the health companion robot "Super Xiaokang" is a product integrating health detection, video consultation, remote monitoring, entertainment companionship and other functions, and has been upgraded to the fourth generation, with mature technology and mass production. The product has passed the certification of Class II medical testing equipment, and has been widely used in various scenarios such as families, elderly care institutions, pharmacies and clinics, government agencies and enterprises in more than 300 cities around the world. The children's morning inspection robot "Super Tiger" has been applied to 28 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) across the country, serving more than 1 million users.
The reporter learned that the intelligent robots produced by the company are not only suitable for life scenarios such as hospitals, hotels, and pharmacies, but also expanded to industrial scenarios such as security, inspection and collaborative operation.
"Technological innovation is fundamental, we invest more than 10 million yuan in research and development in the field of health every year, and develop at least 3 new products every year, and each product has to be iterated almost every six months." Xiao Xiangjiang said that in the future, in terms of hardware products, the company is committed to promoting the development of robots in the direction of generalization and anthropomorphism, and finally let robots enter thousands of households like intimate personal assistants; At the system level, it will be based on the heterogeneous robot cluster operating system that combines virtual and real to drive and manage thousands of intelligent robots and serve thousands of factories and enterprises.