The humanoid robot track ushered in a new entrant with rapid commercialization capabilities.
Just last night, Lingbao CASBOT, an emerging brand, released its first well-built full-size bipedal humanoid robot - "CASBOT 01", which quickly attracted wide attention from the industry with its general brain-like intelligent design and stable and reliable software and hardware platform for multi-scene applications.
By combining machine vision and Strain Wave Gears, this humanoid robot uses our SHD-11 model's harmonic drive on the elbow joint to control the operation of our products after giving instructions in the robot's brain computer to accurately control the movement of the arm.
It is understood that Lingbao CASBOT is a humanoid robot brand under Beijing Zhongke Huiling Robot Technology Co., Ltd. The brand takes general humanoid robots as its core products, deeply integrates embodied intelligence technology, aims to create robot products with high intelligence and wide applicability, and is committed to opening a new era of deep integration between the physical world and the digital world, constantly pursuing excellence and innovation, and striving to lead the development trend of the humanoid robot industry.
The company has a production and research team that has been deeply engaged in the fields of humanoid robots and multi-modal large models for many years. The team members are mainly from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing Institute of Technology, etc., and have rich technical skills and R&D experience in the fields of robots, large models, and artificial intelligence.
Since the establishment of Lingbao CASBOT, although it has only been less than a year, it has successfully accumulated a large number of partners in many fields such as aerospace, navigation, emergency rescue, underground operations, industrial manufacturing and commercial services, demonstrating its excellent commercial landing capabilities.
Affectionately known as "Wednesday", this humanoid robot has a height of 179 cm and a weight of 60 kg, 52 degrees of freedom throughout the body, a computing power of up to 550 T, and a battery life of more than 4 hours. Its appearance has been carefully designed to be more human-friendly, it is comfortable to stand on two feet and walk steadily, and it has a variety of life skills, as you can see from the release video, the robot can organize clothes, assemble table lamps, change light bulbs, and even perform delicate screwing operations.
The head of the CASBOT 01 is equipped with multiple RGBD cameras, sensors such as lidar and IMU, which are capable of both visual and auditory interaction. Its five-finger bionic dexterous hand adopts a bionic design with a highly compact overall mechanism and the integration of drive-sensor-control system, which makes the robot more handy in fine operation.
In addition to the perfect mechanical design visible to the naked eye, at the technical level, Lingbao CASBOT has put a lot of effort into it.
According to reports, the company has independently developed three series of integrated joints of planetary, harmonic and straight line, with a peak torque density of up to 207Nm/kg and an efficiency of more than 80%. Through a series of advanced control technologies, such as vibration suppression, inertia recognition, friction compensation, etc., the high-precision "torque ring" control effect is realized, in addition, CASBOT 01 also adopts a set of motion control framework that combines adversarial motion prior and whole body control (WBC) to ensure that the robot can operate robustly in a variety of complex and dynamic environments.
In terms of model training, Lingbao CASBOT adopts an innovative technical route from real to virtual, data synthesis, hybrid training, and then from virtual to real. With hierarchical end-to-end models and hybrid training techniques, robots are more intelligent, flexible, and autonomous.
At the press conference, CASBOT 01 also released "ONE MORE THING" on behalf of the host - "CASBOT NEXT GEN", an upgraded version of CASBOT 01, scheduled to be released in 2025.
In terms of commercialization path, Lingbao CASBOT takes the B-end market as the entry point, establishes cooperation in industrial, special and other fields, continuously cultivates, optimizes product performance, reduces costs, and gradually expands to the C-end market. It is believed that in the near future, Lingbao CASBOT will realize its vision - to create an intelligent and innovative species and shape a new world of intelligent symbiosis.
With the breakthrough and innovation of artificial intelligence technology, 2025 is expected to become the first year of humanoid robots. However, in the "first year" of humanoid robots, the industry also has to face the difficulties of commercialization.
As an important carrier of new productivity, humanoid robots can play an active role in technology integration and innovation, promoting industrial transformation, promoting economic growth, and optimizing the allocation of production factors. However, the development of the humanoid robot industry is still facing problems such as poor technical competitiveness and slow industrialization speed of key components such as special chips, operating systems, human-computer interaction technology, and simulation systems. The development of the humanoid robot industry still requires the joint efforts of the whole society.