China’s bipedal humanoid robot has set the speed for a new world record for its “species.”
Unitree’s H1 robot is called “Evolution V3.0” and the company claims it will eventually run even faster, Knewz.com has learned.
The H1 robot stands at 5 feet 11 inches and weighs less than 110 pounds, according to Metro. The humanoid robot recently clocked in a running speed of 7.4 mph. The company says “Evolution V3.0” will eventually be able to reach a speed of 11 mph.
In a video released on March 1, the H1 is seen ambulating at its maximum speed of 7.4 miles per hour. It also demonstrates some impressive dance moves, picks up a basket off the back of a robot dog, carries the basket to a table and puts it down. It also walks up and down stairs — forwards, backwards, and sideways.
In one section of the video the robot is seen jumping alongside a person and is able to jump just as high.
In an earlier video demonstration of a previous prototype of the A.I. robot, a person is seen attempting to kick the H1, in order to tip over the robot, but it bounces back with ease.
According to the company, it is the world’s first full-size general-purpose humanoid robot that can run in China. Unitree says it has 360-degree depth perception, a “stable gait and highly flexible movement capabilities,” and is capable of walking and running autonomously in complex terrains and environments.
The robot can achieve its human-like capabilities due to it being equipped with a 3D LiDAR + depth camera, and real-time acquisition of high-precision spatial data to achieve panoramic scanning.
The H1 also uses a front-facing visual depth camera to judge distances and the joints used to create its hips and pelvis are attached to fixed legs. They provide a maximum torque of 360 newton-meter (Nm), which allows the robot to swing its legs back and forth faster.
Unitree believes this is just the beginning when it comes to humanoid capabilities.
Digital Product Studio reports that Unitree has developed a robot AI framework called the “Robot AI World Model” that could see the robots take on more enhanced capabilities. They state that features including online self-learning, versatile whole-body control architectures, advanced computer vision and path-planning algorithms are being progressively integrated into H1.
Meanwhile, China continues to press ahead with the development of humanoid robots. According to China’s Global Times, the government is ramping up technologies and development of humanoids so they can become “a new engine of economic development.”
A humanoid robot competition was held by the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) on Wednesday at Yizhuang, southern Beijing, with 116 companies, universities and research institutes participating.
Wang Peng, an associate research fellow at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences said, “Humanoid robots can be better applied to improve people’s quality of life and working efficiency in family and public services, and relatively dangerous scenarios such as production in factories, emergency rescues and the military sector.”
In February, “Q Family” humanoid robots developed by the research team of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, made their public debut in Beijing, and several prototypes of “Q Family” humanoid robots have obtained preliminary technical verification, according to China Daily.
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