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A significant concern about humanoid robots is their expense, however cell manipulators present an alternate. ObotX has patented a singular kinematic that gives the same vary of movement to a dual-armed, humanoid robotic, however at a a lot cheaper price level. The corporate is searching for companions to take “Elon” to market.
ObotX provides 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 business license obtainable on a royalty foundation.
Humanoid robots might be costly
The humanoid robotic market has matured at a fast tempo during the last two years. Excessive-profile product launches included these of Agility Robotics, Tesla, Boston Dynamics, Determine AI, Apptronik, Unitree, and Sanctuary AI.
All of those corporations’ robots are at the moment 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 mentioned that that when humanoids can be found at this worth level, they’ll change into ubiquitous. Right now, most humanoids are coming to market costing over $100,000.
The same instance is industrial autonomous cell robots (AMRs). Most of those techniques have two drive motors and are listed for greater than $40,000.
It at the moment appears unlikely that humanoid builders will quickly be capable 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 techniques are produced within the tons of of 1000’s of items.
ObotX claims comparable performance with much less complexity
ObotX has designed its cell manipulation system with cheap linear and rotary actuators on high of an AMR. It asserted that its platform can ship the same vary of movement and actuation to that of a humanoid.
The corporate mentioned that integrating fewer actuators will assist to carry down the BOM price. Not solely does ObotX’s kinematic design have fewer actuators, however it will probably additionally reap the benefits of maturing AMRs, which don’t require bipedal agility for a lot of use instances.
ObotX supplies extra details about Elon at its Patreon web site.
