Four-legged robots are becoming smarter and smarter. Yesterday, the leading domestic smart quadruped robot company released the "Kung Fu version" robot dog function demonstration video. In addition to flexible running, jumping, dancing and somersault and other sports skills, the robot dog focused on "showing" its brain, such as Map construction, autonomous navigation, intelligent obstacle avoidance, human body following, etc., fully demonstrate the integration of intelligent technology and athletic ability.

▍This dog can watch and jump, and can complete the owner's instructions in an unfamiliar environment

With the huge shopping mall and the surging flow of people, people may feel confused and uneasy when they are in an unfamiliar environment. For the intelligent robot dog, all of this can be easily faced: it walks and "watches" at a brisk pace, even in an unfamiliar environment, it can reach the designated place to complete the task assigned by the owner.

▍Map construction

Being in an unknown environment, Mini Robot puppy didn't panic, and measured the environment while walking to complete the construction of the environment map. It is equipped with a variety of sensors such as lidar, depth camera, wide-angle camera, and ultrasonic. Using a multi-sensor fusion algorithm, the robot dog's environmental perception is more sensitive and accurate. In an unfamiliar environment, the robot dog will be familiar after walking a circle, and the environment map will be immediately presented to the owner.

▍Autonomous navigation

Robot dogs are never blind. Given a designated destination for the robot dog, the robot dog can plan the optimal route by itself and navigate autonomously to reach the destination.

▍Intelligent obstacle avoidance

Whenever and wherever, safety comes first. The autonomous obstacle avoidance technology of the robot dog can keep the robot dog away from obstacles. Even if it encounters an object in motion, it can stop suddenly to avoid collisions, and it can be retracted more freely.

▍Human body follows

Based on vision technology, the robot dog can always recognize and follow the figure of the target in the case of multi-person interference, lock the target, and follow it firmly.


▍Voice interaction

The robot dog can understand the owner's words and execute related commands. The interaction between humans and machines is no longer a cold remote control, it has become more natural and smooth.

▍It is wearing a yellow T-shirt with black shoulder line, paying tribute to the Kung Fu superstar

In terms of appearance design, Mini Lite draws on the classic yellow T-shirt black shoulder line design of Kung Fu superstar Bruce Lee. The company said that this is a tribute to Bruce Lee and Chinese Kung Fu. "Bruce Lee pushed Chinese Kung Fu to the world. Chinese Kung Fu is not just the action itself, but a unique and profound cultural foundation behind it, which is consistent with the culture in the depths of the cloud."

It can be seen that when most quadruped robot research and development also focus on the development of sports performance, exploring the integration of intelligent technology. The person in charge believes that "the ultimate integration of intelligence and motion represents the next development direction of quadruped robots. Just like the perfect collaboration of the brain and cerebellum, the integration of intelligence and motion is essential to intelligent robots."

The domestic four-legged robot entered the public eye around the beginning of 2018. At that time, the scene of the self-developed robot dog walking in the snow left a deep impression on the public. Mini Robot puppy is the newly launched "Kung Fu version" smart robot dog. It is 50 cm long and weighs about 9 kg. It is the smallest and lightest member of the family. As you can see in the video, the robot dog has made significant progress. Trotting, running and jumping, up and down steps, dancing, and even continuous backflips can be completed smoothly. Under the disturbance of external force, the robot dog still shows good balance control ability, even if it falls down, it can immediately stand up and re-enter the "battle".

"It is not enough to have a developed'cerebellum'. We hope that the robot dog will also have a developed'brain' to reduce dependence on people when performing tasks, be more intelligent and autonomous, and better coordinate with people." The person in charge said , On the basis of perfecting the movement ability of the robot dog, the company's research and development force has turned to the development of the robot dog intelligence. Now, the robot dog is getting smarter and smarter. At the press conference, Mini Robot puppy function display video, in addition to flexible running, jumping, dancing and somersault and other sports skills, the robot dog focused on "showing" its brain, such as map construction, autonomous navigation, intelligent obstacle avoidance, and human body following. And so on, fully demonstrated the integration of smart technology and athletic ability.

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