LimX Dynamics’ W1 robot can stand, walk and roll on its hind ‘legs’

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LimX Dynamics has revealed that the W1 quadruped robot can walk on two feet across a smooth floor. In the future, it might also climb stairs bipedally as with other robots in the company.

China’s LimX Dynamics has brought about a revolution in the field of robotics with the W1 quadruped robot being able to stand up and walk on its two feet.

W1 was released just last year, and it was inspired by the ETH-Zurich-designed Swiss-Mile robot. Quite similar to the earlier bot, this one also has four legs and each of them is powered with a powered wheel on the end. The W1 has this innate capability to travel on smooth roads, sidewalks, floors, and whatnot. It can simply roll along on its wheels for optimum speed and energy efficiency.

Later it uses those wheels as feet while taking on a quadruped walking style. One of the main differences between theand W1 is the fact that the former can adopt a human-like form for certain tasks. These include giving or taking packages where it could stand up and either walk or roll on its hind legs. Now, the W1 can do that as well.360 degrees on the spot, make 90-degree turns and also make its way between obstacles like shelving units, and also recover fast without causing any collisions.

Based on real-time enviornment perception, W1 demonstrates agile perceptive locomotion to overcome challenging discrete terrains. The well-defined multiple high-performing actuators further allow W1 to fully unleash its comprehensive mobility potentials. According toThis robot’s design can flexibly adapt to various scenarios, with a wheeled movement speed of maximum 10m/s, stable endurance of 4 hours, 16 actuated degrees of freedom and autonomous switching of multiple motion modes.

 

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