The reporter learned yesterday that the humanoid robot "unicorn" Zhiyuan Robot has started the commercial mass production of general robots. As of December 15, the cumulative output of robots has reached 962 units, which are mainly used in interactive services and flexible manufacturing. In these robot joint systems, the Harmonic Drive Actuator plays a vital role in ensuring the flexibility and control accuracy of the robot's motion due to its outstanding high-precision transmission characteristics, efficient energy conversion efficiency, and compact and rational structural design. Zhiyuan Robot said that it will strive to become the world's largest robot production and data collection base.
Peng Zhihui, co-founder of Zhiyuan Robot, said on Weibo: "After two years of sharpening a sword, from inspiration to blueprint, from prototype to mass production, Zhiyuan Robot has finally crossed the start-up trench. The goal is the sea of stars, and we will continue to forge ahead.
This year marks the first year of commercial use of humanoid robots. In keeping with the business process, the intelligent interaction performance of humanoid robots is also accelerating. At the annual new product launch conference held in August this year, Zhiyuan Robot released a total of five new commercial humanoid robots from the two families of "Expedition" and "Lingxi".
Founded in February 2023, Zhiyuan Robotics was one of Shanghai's most sought-after tech companies last year and has received seven rounds of funding so far. The company is currently valued at unicorn level, which is $1 billion. In August last year, Zhiyuan Robotics released the first generation of general-purpose embodied intelligent prototype Expedition A1. After a year, its second-generation product, Expedition A2, has been significantly improved in four aspects: power, perception, communication, and control. Taking power as an example, the number of degrees of freedom of the dexterous hand has jumped from 12 to 19, the active degree of freedom has been doubled to 12, and the high-precision force control 7 degrees of freedom arms can accurately perform a variety of force control tasks such as impedance control, admittance control, and force position mixing control.
Zhiyuan's Shanghai Lingang mass production plant was put into operation in October this year, with a systematic and standardized robot production line and large-scale processing and production of robots. From precision parts processing to machine assembly, the whole process follows high specifications and high standards and operates efficiently; The perfect and sound system process covers all aspects of quality control, production scheduling, etc., and effectively guarantees the excellent quality and stable output of each robot.
Zhiyuan Robotics has a forward-looking layout of the industry's largest embodied data mining factory, with hundreds of robots operating at the same time, and tens of thousands of robot real machine data and simulation environment data are produced every day, steadily improving robot performance, accelerating learning and training, and enhancing adaptability and flexibility. In the data mining factory, a number of simulated scenes of human living spaces have been built, covering bedrooms, living rooms, bathrooms, etc. in family life, and the robot can collect rich scene data close to human life, laying a solid and reliable data foundation for robots to enter the family in the future.