A few days ago, a start-up company in the field of physical intelligence released a new humanoid robot, which attracted a lot of attention at a price of 38,500. At the same time, this price also comes with an open-source system. In addition, the company has been established for less than a year.

What kind of background can a company have such energy? What is the positioning of its new products?

After digging deeper, it's really not easy. There is also a logic that humanoid products can achieve such a price.

Figure | Zhongqing Robot

It is understood that this robot product is oriented to the field of scientific research and education, the weight of the whole machine is about 40 kg, equipped with six degrees of freedom single leg, knee torque up to 160 Nm, ankle torque up to 96 Nm, with the ability to stand on one foot, joint speed up to 28rad/s, can achieve running and jumping and other actions. Judging from the current features, this product seems to be a little single, and it seems to be a cantileverless configuration by default. However, taking into account factors such as price and full open source, it is still very concerned.

This product was launched by the startup Zhongqing Robotics, which was founded in October 2023 and has been less than a year ago. Although Zhongqing Robotics is a start-up company, in fact, Zhongqing has been accumulating in the field of embodied intelligence for seven or eight years.

Since 2016, Zhao Tongyang, the founder of Zhongqing, has founded Dogotix, a bionic robot company. It is said that Dogotix originally planned to make a bipedal robot, but in the end, it was evaluated that it was too difficult and expensive to implement a bipedal robot under the conditions at that time, so it turned to the development of a quadruped robot. The quadruped robot product developed by Dogotix is not even weaker than Boston Dynamics' Spot mini in some aspects.

In 2020, Xpeng Motors acquired Dogotix, and then established Pengxing Intelligence. Zhao Tongyang served as the general manager of Pengxing Intelligence and led the development of the humanoid robot PX5.

It can be seen that Zhongqing Robot has actually accumulated many years in the field of foot-type robots. It's not hard to understand that humanoid robot products can be launched at such a rapid pace.

Looking back, Zhao Tongyang's development process in the field of embodied intelligence is very similar to Wang Xingxing of Unitree Technology. Both started with robot dogs, and after enough accumulation, they then cut into the field of bipedal robots. I talked about the development process of Unitree Technology before: the rise of Unitree, the counterattack of atypical scholars

Next, let's talk about why Zhongqing Robotics chooses to start from the field of scientific research and education?

Everyone's intuitive feeling is that the research and development of humanoid robots is so complex that it is not easy to land quickly. Indeed it is. But what many people may overlook is that there is a huge difference between a commercial product and a laboratory product. Some scientific research and educational institutions need some products for experiments, scientific research or demonstrations, and such products do not necessarily require high precision and reliability. Therefore, the cost of the product will not be too high, and the price of the product will not be too high, and the product level will also be diversified.

From this point of view, it seems more logical that humanoid robots serving the field of scientific research and education can achieve a price of 38,500.

I happened to talk about a manufacturer with a scientific research and education background and some services in this field: a humanoid robot company with hematopoietic function

In addition, according to Zhongqing Robot's plan, other full-scale humanoid robot products will be launched in the future for industrial and commercial service scenarios.

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