Today, Tencent Robotics X Lab unveiled its latest research achievement, a human-living environment robot named "Xiao Wu." This robot is designed to be an indispensable assistant in the home, capable of walking and moving objects in real environments, and even providing assistance to the elderly.
Xiao Wu's design revolutionizes traditional robot concepts, adopting a quadruped wheel-foot hybrid structure. This design allows it to move faster on flat surfaces while maintaining adaptability to uneven terrains. This flexibility enables Xiao Wu to move freely in various environments such as residential homes and nursing homes.
Xiao Wu's intelligent control system is also noteworthy. Utilizing a high-frequency, low-latency global positioning and mapping (SLAM) system combined with sensors like lidar and IMU, Xiao Wu can perceive its surroundings in real-time. This system not only allows Xiao Wu to accurately locate itself in complex environments but also enables it to avoid dynamic and static obstacles in real-time, achieving safe and efficient autonomous movement.
With advanced multimodal human-robot interaction technology, Xiao Wu has a more acute perception capability than previous models, able to understand and predict human action needs. In practical applications, such as assisting an elderly person to stand up, Xiao Wu can comprehensively analyze the elderly person's physical condition and movement characteristics, ensuring assistance is provided without adding burden.
Xiao Wu is not just a display of technology but also a pioneer of future home life. Its ability to fold and unfold autonomously reduces storage space requirements and enhances its convenience for moving and using. This design takes into account the diverse needs of users' daily lives, making the robot a flexible and efficient working partner in the home environment.
In the long run, Tencent Robotics X Lab's innovative product not only expands the application scenarios of robot technology but also sets new standards for the entire smart home industry. In the future, as technology continues to advance and people's demands for quality of life increase, smart robots will no longer be merely scientific research achievements but will become an indispensable part of our daily lives.
