1X Approach to General-Purpose Robots

1-minute abstract

• Passe robots lack dynamism and safety in their movements, this is why they’re generally simplest considered in ‘managed’ environments corresponding to factories or research labs.
• To raise humanoids into the area among us, 1X has engineered robotic systems that kit compliant and clear transmissions with our in-condominium developed high torque density motors, taking into story safety, agility and suppleness.
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Within the ever-evolving landscape of robotics, 1X is main the worth in direction of redefining the capabilities of humanoids for precise-world influence. Unlike worn systems that excelled in managed lab environments however stumbled when confronted with the unpredictability of the precise world, our purpose is to invent same old reason robots that will just successfully in any anxiousness.

At the coronary heart of this endeavor is the enchancment of a two-legged robotic in a position to stable and dynamically dexterous initiatives. NEO is 1.65 meters immense, weighs 30 kilograms, has 55 levels of freedom (in conjunction with fingers), and is made of meticulously crafted substances.

January 2024, 1X will likely be net net hosting “Launch Home”. Allowing a particular group of of us to learn more about how we’re working to entire our targets and catch a kind of what it draw to be a vertically integrated robotics firm.

Navigating Hardware Challenges in Robotics

The chase in direction of increasing dynamic and stable humanoids has its challenges. One critical predicament is the lack of commercially readily available motors and transmission systems that enable the invent of passively stable and high-efficiency robots.

For robots to just alongside people, safety is paramount. Robots constructed with highly geared and/or low efficiency transmission substances (harmonic drives, leadscrews…) repeat very shrimp compliance, making the robotic interactions with the area very inflexible and unhealthy. As well to that, the high friction, high weight and high inertia of such systems end up translating into sluggish, clumsy, or unreliable robots.

Furthermore, a form of the off-the-shelf motors are made for applications the keep the torque-to-weight ratio – or torque-to-quantity ratio – is awfully low. Therefore, by the use of such motors, it’s generally famous to use a high gear ratio transmission to entire the desired torque at the output. This high gear ratio acts as a multiplier of not simplest the torque, however additionally the inertia and friction. This is what we name internally a “non-clear transmission”.

1X’s clear transmissions and high torque density motors

In robotics, in particular when building humanoid robots, it’s well-known to maintain a profound influence over the originate ingredient and efficiency of all subsystems and substances. Nearly every run of the 1X hardware and tool is designed in-condominium, allowing us to elegant-tune every ingredient of our robots conserving safety, efficiency, and fee below our alter when the humanoid hits the market.

1X’s vertical integration draw expands wide and deep into our know-how stack. One amongst the key layers of this stack is what we name “clear transmission”. In easy phrases, our cable drive transmissions are designed so as that we can precisely resolve the torque at the output (joint) in step with measuring the torque at the input (motor), without desiring costly torque sensors. The low friction and low inertia along the transmission is negligible, guaranteeing its “transparency”.

Yet one more well-known asset of this “clear transmission” is our in-condominium developed electric motors. We’ve designed them in a means that the torque-to-weight ratio (and torque-to-quantity ratio) is awfully high. This permits us to kit high torque joints without the necessity of a high gear ratio transmission, making the robotic joints very low in phrases of inertia, mechanical losses, and weight. This “quasi-exclaim” belief takes very shrimp location, allowing NEO to maintain a originate ingredient much like a 1.65-meter human.

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All above aid us to assemble humanoid robots that are intrinsically compliant, stable, low tag, and dynamic allowing NEO to withhold or elevate human-esteem payloads.

The delivery condominium  in January 2024 serves as an different for robotics engineers to peep firsthand the strides we’re making to maintain robotic companions in our each day lives. Our CEO, Bernt Øivind Børnich, and high tool and hardware engineers will fragment insights into our chase of crafting our humanoids.

Post your hobby in participating here.

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