Reported by: Xie Wei Li Jianfei Li Yiru Huangfu Jianqiao
Photographed by: Xie Wei Li Jianfei Li Yiru Huangfu Jianqiao
Translated by: Xu Jingxin
Edited by: Garrick Jones
From the 20th to the 25th of October, the 2016 Robot Conference was held in Beijing. The “dexterous hand” of the HIT Robot Institution and more than 60 types of HIT Robot Group were shown in the conference, and the new production including the precise cycloidal pin wheel speed reducer, electric step-climbing wheelchair, and arhat robot became the focus. Liu Yandong, the Member of the Political Bureau and the vice-premier of the State Council, and Jia Qinglin, the former chairman of CPPCC visited HIT exhibition stand, accompanied by the vice-president Chang Anshi.
Liu Yandong visit the HIT exhibition stand
Jia Qinglin visited the HIT exhibition stand
With the theme of “Create, Share, and Win Together, and Initiate the Smart Era”, the conference conducted high-level academic communication and achievement presentation’s around the major areas of robot research and the innovative development of smart society. There were near 150 known robot companies participating. On the conference, related to the smart factory, industrial robot, service robot, and special robot, the HIT Robot Group promoted seven series of production, systems and solutions including cutting-edge technology, industrial producing, special session, medical rehabilitation, career education, life service, and non-standard customization.
In the cutting-edge area of robot technology, products including the dexterous hand, Micro-nano power tester, nanometer operation robot, and the high vacuum environment/SEM compatible atomic force microscope were exhibited, in which the dexterous hand was the focus. The dexterous hand is equipped with multiple perceptive functions, is highly intelligent and integrated, and with 3 degrees of freedom, 4 joints and 5 fingers, it is equipped with many sensors and integrated communication and controls system including the joint location, joint moment, “prosthetic skin” touch, temperature, and spacing. It is one of the apery dexterous hands with the most flexibility and operability in the world. The Micro-nano power tester is a kind of sensor with ultrahigh resolution which can be used to measure the nano power and sub-nanometer displacement. It can be installed on the different micro-nano operation gears to do the micro-power test within the scope of micro-nano power and then the pickup, migration, and stretch operation on the micro-nano objects. Compared with the traditional robots, the nanometer operation robots, the only sensor with displacement feedback in the world, can complete the various observations, representations, and operations under an iota in dimension. The high vacuum environment/SEM compatible atomic force microscope is able to do atomic force microscope imaging and quantitative measurement on nanometer power in high vacuum or SEM electron microscope.
The dexterous hand
The staff introducing the nanometer robot production
The micro-nano power tester
In the area of industrial robots, the HIT Robot Group promotes the precise cycloidal pin gear speed reducer, six joint industrial robot, four-axis robot palletizer, C5 spray painting robot, and a series of AGV production. The precise cycloidal pin gear speed reducer the advantages of which including high transmission speed ratio, high precision, high rigidity, and high power density, which can be widely applied to the medical equipment, trace navigation, elbow facility, mechanical arm noumenon, banding wheel, and automation equipment, being hopeful to sever the monopoly of foreign factories in the area of key components of robots and improve the development of the domestic robot industry. The six joint industrial robot is a type of popular industrial robot, whose effective load can be classified into 8kg, 20kg, and 30kg boxes, which can be applied to industrial areas including welding, polishing, carrying, feeding and blanking, assembling, and gelatinizing. The four-axis robot palletizer which has advantages such as low energy consumption, simple operation, low failure rate, good applicability, and small floor space, so it is easier to integrate into the automatic production line. The C.5 spray painting robot is mainly applied to the automatic coating and producing of the doors, windows, and panel furniture. By the use of reliable and optimal testing, it can measure the size and shape, regulate the spray track, and avoid resource waste. The series of AGV production has beautiful appearance for the spraying plastics on the body, and is equipped with functions including materials handling, skip car transportation, and raise and fall, butt and joint. It is adapted to integration management in order to realize the automatic control of logistics; meanwhile, it can work for almost 24 hours with the full load.
The precise cycloidal pin gear speed reducer
In the area of special robot, the HIT Robot Group possesses a stereoscopic special robot production system of ocean, land, and sky. Among that, the smart security and protection robot carries sense testing facilities including imaging, infrared, sound, and gas. In the working area, it takes the smart patrol and warns after finding problems, and it can also be applied to the developed community, warehouse logistics, enterprise parks, smart industry, dangerous areas, exhibition, airport, and commercial complex. The fire-fighting robot can be used for urban fire control and earthquake relief work, so it can take place of the firefighters entering the scene of action with flammable and combustible, poison, oxygen deficit, and dense smoke conditions and conduct data collection, management, feedback, and fire control. The wall-climbing robot can replace the people who operate on high walls and in narrow spaces, and it has obstacle climbing ability. It is the only production robot able to stably check inside the container. The anti-terrorism robots are mainly comprise of small-sized and middle-sized scout and explosive-removal robot. They can rapidly move to the suspicious explosion spot, implement the explosive seizing, and explosive transferring. The “Merak II” six-rotor UAV is equipped with the function of flexible flight including the vertical lift and fall, and hovering at any moment. It can be used for longtime operation, suitable to the automobile trace on highway, rapid transportation, custom checks, disaster relief, anti-terrorism, line patrol of electric power and pipeline, aerial photos, forest fire prevention, crop general survey, danger search and help-seeking on the sea, maritime environment protection, and closed fishing and search for smuggler.
Fire-fighting robot
The pipeline robots
In the area of the medical health, the Harbin Tianyu Rehabilitation Medical Robot Co. ltd. independently researches spine rehabilitation robots, the multi-joint traction rehabilitation robot system, and the smart cervical traction robot system, which can fill in the blank in the domestic market. To realize the precise tenderness of the traction by force control, the research team develops the smart spine rehabilitation robot for a year and shorten the traction feedback time to 0.001 second, the traction power to 50g, which is highly appraised by the patients. The smart care bed for the aged is mainly used as an easy and effective nurse for the aged and bedridden patients, with the function of automatic entire lying, half lying, as well as the seat adjustment, air-operated turnover, air-operated massage and physiotherapy, pressure sore prevention, video and radio entertainment, and distant chatting. The Lingzhi upper limb rehabilitation robot is the cooperation result of the HIT Robot Group, the Quanser Company in Canada, and the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, it is able to improve the therapeutic effect and efficiency in patients with upper limb movement obstacles such as a stroke.
The smart spine rehabilitation robot
The audience is experiencing the Lingzhi upper limb rehabilitation robot.
In the area of robot education, the HIT Robot Group presents the industrial teaching robots including the six-axis robot training table, the aclinic joint robot training table, and the DELTA parallel robot experiment table. The six-axis robot training table can realize the teaching of stacking, carry, laser engraving, and polishing; meanwhile, the visual system can be selected to guide the robot. The clinic joint robot training table is compact, small, and deft, with the core of mainstream plane joint robot (SCARA robot). It can present many industrial application function of the SCARA robot according to the teaching requirement. The DELTA parallel robot experiment table selects the self-designed and researched robot body and the controller, cooperating with the pneumatic manipulator module and conveyor module to present a rapid mobile seizing process. The education entertainment robot, combined with the technical principle, electronic sensor, computer software and hardware, and the artificial intelligence, provides a perfect experience for the students and parents.
The industrial teaching robot
In the area of life service, the exhibition products of HIT Robot Group includes the electronic loading step-climbing robot, as well as the welcoming, catering, teaching, and band robots. The electronic step-climbing wheelchair is a new type of smart wheelchair aiming to solve the up and down problems of the aged and disabled people. It utilized the five link mechanism to simulate the people’s action of walking up and down stairs and attain the aims. The arhat robot is named of the “eighteen arhats”, and as a wearable entertainment robot, its head, fingers, wrists, elbow joints, knee-joints, and ankles can move at certain angles. It has the features of precise movement and automatic control, and is able to perform in the shopping mall, amusement park, and exhibition. The welcoming robot “Will” possesses functions including man-machine interaction, facial recognition, self-help navigation, automatic obstacle avoidance, security and protection monitoring, and it can also load the APP to share the jobs of customer services and meeting workers. It is mainly applied to places with large people flow, such as the banks, technology museums, airports, and business halls. The meal delivery robots have the functions of automatic delivery, blank panel recycling, and meal introduction. The starlight camera is an internet protocol camera with low-light of 1080P and high definition. Under the condition of 0.001Lux low-light, it can still offer the clear video information. So it can be applied in the places with dark light requiring for the high definition displays such as the finance, government, airport, factory, hotel, museum, department, and road monitoring. The electronic loading step-climbing robot is a new type of step-climbing equipment, which can rapidly carry heavy things up and down safely and replace heavy physical labor. This product has entered many procurement lists of the real estate and logistics enterprises.
The electronic step-climbing wheelchair
The arhat robot lively cooperates with the crosstalk comedian.
In the area of “non-standard” customized producing line, the peach blossom digitalized factory presented as the sand table can realize the automization and digitalization of the whole process of melting the gum, boiling the cream, producing the gum and weighing, storing in the refrigerator, demoulding, chopping the gum, and packaging. The factory is put into effect in Donge Ejiao, which is the precedent of the automization era of Ejiao producing and promote the upgrade and reform of Ejiao producing. The jade automatic production line is the first flexible production line independently developed and practiced in the industrial concept 4.0 in China. According to the process flow, it can be divided into five modules including the stock removal, graving, polish, stock entrance, and logistics, going to upgrade the jade production in Yunnan, south Asia, and the southeast Asia.
The jade production line
According to the information, since established in December, 2014, the HIT Robot Group insist in the aim of “Based on the Heilongjiang Province, Cooperating with the whole country, and Facing to the world”, and with the headquarter in Harbin, it has established bases in Tianjin, Hefei, Suzhou, Zhongshan, and Chengdu, business centers in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, and overseas offices in the US, Germany, Japan, and Korea. It has attracted a multitude of teams and improved the holding subsidiary corporations number to over 20. There are more than 1300 outstanding people including 65 Ph.D.s and 260 masters, 32.9 years old on average. Twenty types of robots including smart factory, industrial robots, service robots, and special robots, 100 high technological production are developed, and the total output value in 2015 was more than 300 million.
