Robots work more efficiently

On August 15th, the five-day World Robotics Congress kicked off at the Beijing International Exhibition Center. The World Robotics Congress, known as the “Davos”, “Hanover Exhibition” and “Olympic Games” in the robotics industry, has been successfully held for three sessions. The theme of this conference is “To create a new era of wisdom and sharing kinetic energy”.

The Expo is one of the most watched and publicly-received sections of previous conferences. On the basis of the industrial robot and service robot exhibition area this year, the robot application exhibition area and the ground unmanned system exhibition area have also been newly established. The four exhibition areas have gathered more than 150 domestic and foreign enterprises and scientific research institutions such as Shenyang Xinsong, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Aerospace, Swiss ABB, Japan FANUC, Yaskawa, and Festo.

FANUC Super Robot M-2000iA/1700L

As a representative of FANUC China, Shanghai FANUC Robotics Co., Ltd. contributed most of the booth to the “Giant Robot” FANUC Robot M-2000iA, a heavy object handling robot.

The M-2000iA series robots are divided into M-2000iA/900L and M-2000iA/1200 series models, which can be selected according to different purposes. According to Fanuc, the series can handle a maximum of 2.3 tons, which can be used to replace the professional lifting device in the car factory. In the past, one ton of heavy objects that two robots needed to coordinate their movements could now be processed by a “big robot”.

At the scene, Fanuc displayed the series of super-large robot M-2000iA/1700L to carry the finished vehicle. The robot has a wide range of motion, with a stroke of up to 6.2 meters in the up and down direction and a handling capacity of 1.7 tons. The huge robotic arm can grip the entire body from the side of the car. This expands the scope of the robot's handling of heavy loads and provides flexibility in responding to changing plant layouts.

Shenyang Xinsong's stage mobile robot

As the leading enterprise in the domestic robot industry, Shenyang Xinsong highlighted the stage mobile robot in this exhibition. The robot participated in the performance of “Beijing Eight Minutes” at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018.

This is a low-profile two-vehicle linkage AGV (automatic guided transport vehicle). It can flexibly and accurately complete multi-variable path motion such as straight line, side shift, curve, rotation, etc. It can also be used to control the walking path. Multiple AGVs can also be automatically combined to form mobile stages with different load carrying capacities and different sizes.

In addition, Xinsong also exhibited a snake-arm robot with 12 joints and 24+1 degrees of freedom. It has products such as intelligent laser navigation, image technology, and voice interaction.

Gree Robot Band

In the gallery area of ​​the pavilion, a musical performance by a robotic band attracted the attention of many viewers.

This is the product brought by Zhuhai Gree Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned robot subsidiary of Gree Electric. The robot band consists of five modules: drum, guitar, bass, keyboard, and carillon. It uses eight GR606 industrial robots, two GRS405 horizontal multi-joint robots and one GRS401 horizontal multi-joint robot. The on-site staff introduced that by programming the robot's motion state and matching the special fixtures, the robot completed the whole song under the guidance of the music teacher.

Haigli Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. was established in September 2015. It is mainly engaged in the production and sales of industrial robots and automation equipment. The products cover servo robots, industrial robots, intelligent AGV, warehousing, heat exchanger special machine tools and equipment, and unmanned automated production lines. More than ten fields.

China Aerospace's "Little Xiao Xiao" Automatic Milk Tea Robot

Service robots are still very popular at this year's show. A fully automatic milk tea robot on the China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as China Aerospace) booth was surrounded by a group of children.

This two-armed six-dimensional human-automatic drink robot named "Little Xiao Xiao" is a product jointly launched by the 18th Research Institute of China Aerospace First Research Institute and Jiangsu Dianjin Huihai Automation Technology Co., Ltd. It is also the first two-dimensional six-dimensional collaborative humanoid robot used in the commercial field in China.

According to the on-site staff, “Xiaoying Xiaoyan” can make DIY exclusive drinks according to the raw materials in the store, which is not possible with similar products on the market.

Cheng Yuanchao, an engineer with China Aerospace Robotics, told the interface journalist that this fully automatic milk tea beverage robot was developed by the Institute in response to customer needs and will provide more than 1,000 milk tea drinks and ice cream after its launch. “The speed of on-site display has been doubled, and the time to complete a cup of milk tea after listing can be controlled within 1 minute,” he said.

Festo's bionic flying fox

Bionic robots have consistently received the highest level of attention.

The German Festo Group participated in the World Robotics Congress for the third time. The family business founded in 1925 is known for its concept of “bionic learning”. In the past ten years, it has developed a series of influential bionic robots. In the past two robotics conferences, the company exhibited products such as intelligent birds, bionic butterflies, bionic oysters and air jellyfish.

At this year's show, BionicFlyingFox, a new member of the Festo Group's bionic family, completed its Asian debut. At 12 noon on August 15th, the robot flew two rounds on the A210 booth. Due to the restrictions of the venue, the obstacles landed on the first lap.

In the bionic learning network project, flight is a high-frequency topic, and it usually needs to face two major challenges: lightweight and functional integration. The Festo Group has developed the ultra-light aircraft with intelligent motion devices by simulating the unique flight mode of the flying bats.

The two wings of the robot have a width of 228 cm and a body length of 87 cm. The overall weight is only 580 grams. The body is made of specially developed elastic airtight material made of elastic knit fabric and selectively welded metal foil. The honeycomb construction allows it to continue flying with minor damage.

By integrating the onboard electronic board with the external motion tracking system, the robot can perform semi-autonomous flight in a specific space. In flight, it can calculate the wing motion required to perform the planned motion sequence and use it as a basis to optimize flight operations.

Yuki Technology's Laikago

In the pavilion, a robot dog strolling back and forth caught everyone's attention. This is the four-legged robot Laikago (named from the space dog Laika) from Hangzhou Yushu Technology Co., Ltd. (Unitree).

Yu Shu, co-founder of Yushu Technology, told the interface journalist that this four-legged robot is completely self-developed and produced. The whole machine has 12 degrees of freedom, corresponding to 12 motors, and the bionics are good. On non-smooth roads, it can pass steps, stairs, slopes and gravel roads. At the same time, due to the force control of the whole machine, it also has the corresponding flexibility. In the future, similar four-legged robots can be used in security, rescue and disaster relief, home maintenance, scientific research and teaching.

Generally, when standing, Laikago has a length, width and height of 0.56 meters, 0.35 meters and 0.6 meters respectively. The whole machine has 12 high-performance motors with a total instantaneous maximum power of 18KW and a power mass density of 0.8KW/Kg (super running is about 0.45KW/Kg). The three-axis force control of the fuselage during exercise, the maximum tensile force is greater than or equal to 25N (programmable boost).

The robot is fully controlled with 6 degrees of freedom, and the external force received by the robot can be calculated according to the current output torque of the 12 joints of the robot, thereby achieving the follow-up of the external force. And it has the ability to adapt to external shock interference within a certain amplitude.

Yushu Technology said on the official website that "Laikago does not currently use any artificial intelligence related AI programs."

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