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A significant concern about humanoid robots is their expense, however cellular manipulators present an alternate. ObotX has patented a singular kinematic that gives an identical vary of movement to a dual-armed, humanoid robotic, however at a a lot lower cost level. The corporate is in search of companions to take “Elon” to market.
ObotX gives its system with an open-source license that makes all content material, patents, drawings, directions, and software program, free to make use of for private and analysis functions. It’s engaged on an official web site and plans to make a industrial license accessible on a royalty foundation.
Humanoid robots can be costly
The humanoid robotic market has matured at a speedy tempo over the past two years. Excessive-profile product launches included these of Agility Robotics, Tesla, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Apptronik, Unitree, and Sanctuary AI.
All of those firms’ robots are at present costly and their utility remains to be unproven. A humanoid can have greater than 25 motors/actuators and over 30 levels of freedom.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed that his firm will get Optimus beneath $20,000. He stated that that after humanoids can be found at this worth level, they are going to change into ubiquitous. As we speak, most humanoids are coming to market costing over $100,000.
An analogous instance is industrial autonomous cellular robots (AMRs). Most of those methods have two drive motors and are listed for greater than $40,000.
It at present appears unlikely that humanoid builders will quickly have the ability to obtain a listing worth of $20,000 and a respective invoice of supplies (BOM) of lower than $10,000 (at 50% margin). These worth factors won’t be attainable till these methods are produced within the lots of of hundreds of models.
ObotX claims comparable performance with much less complexity
ObotX has designed its mobile manipulation system with cheap linear and rotary actuators on high of an AMR. It asserted that its platform can ship an identical vary of motion and actuation to that of a humanoid.
The corporate stated that integrating fewer actuators will assist to convey down the BOM value. Not solely does ObotX’s kinematic design have fewer actuators, however it may possibly additionally make the most of maturing AMRs, which don’t require bipedal agility for a lot of use instances.
ObotX offers extra details about Elon at its Patreon site.
