The wheeled, two-armed R1 is already in production and has been shipped to customers including a museum, Robbyant says
Ant Group unveiled its first humanoid robot at a trade show in Shanghai on Thursday, heralding the Chinese fintech company’s entry into the increasingly competitive field of embodied artificial intelligence to take on rivals like Unitree Robotics.
The wheeled, two-armed humanoid, named R1, was developed by Ant’s robotics unit Ant Lingbo Technology, also known as Robbyant. At the company’s booth at the Inclusion Conference on the Bund on Thursday, the second day of the four-day event, one R1 stood on display while another was deployed in a mock kitchen, putting ingredients into a wok.
The company said the first-generation R1 weighed 110kg, stood between 1.6 and 1.75 metres tall, moved at under 1.5 metres per second and had 34 degrees of freedom. It could operate as a chef or tour guide, or perform remote-controlled tasks, it said.
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