Paw-some Feat: Robot Dog Conquers Mount Tai, Steals the Internet’s Heart and Heads into Mass Production
- Recently, the "robot dog porter" carrying heavy objects up Mount Tai has become popular on the Internet, attracting the attention of many people.
- The "robot dog" carrying a large box of heavy objects climbed up the stone steps of Mount Tai.
- Climbing up steps in a fancy way, doing backflips on the spot...
Recently, the “robot dog porter” carrying heavy objects up Mount Tai has become popular on the Internet, attracting the attention of many people. What is the current level of capabilities of a quadruped robot like this? What scenarios can it actually be used in? Let’s take a look at the reporter’s on-site visit.
The “robot dog” carrying a large box of heavy objects climbed up the stone steps of Mount Tai. This test video made many people lament that “mountain carriers” may say goodbye to heavy labor in the future. Such a “robot dog” is called a quadruped robot. In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, reporters came to the R&D company of related robots to find out.
Climbing up steps in a fancy way, doing backflips on the spot… Under the operation of the staff, quadruped robots of different sizes and models can complete a variety of actions. The reporter learned that existing four-legged robots are mainly divided into two categories: consumer grade and industrial grade, with prices ranging from nearly 10,000 yuan to hundreds of thousands of yuan. They have now entered the mass production stage.
In an underground cable tunnel near the South Third Ring Road in Beijing, an inspection robot dog was officially put into use this year. It is equipped with a robotic arm, and there is a high-definition infrared camera at the front end of the robotic arm. Whenever it reaches a key location for inspection, it can independently inspect the cables next to it.
Every time the inspection “robot dog” works for a certain distance, it can lie down at a special wireless charging point to charge, and then continue working. The project leader said that in the past five years of research and development testing, they have successively solved the problems of long-distance power supply and communication underground, and conducted 3D modeling of tunnels. Today, there are six such four-legged robots in Beijing, conducting daily autonomous inspections underground.