LimX Dynamics Inc., a Shenzhen-based company, showcased the remarkable capabilities of its CL-1 humanoid robot, which include climbing stairs and walking down slopes. The versatility exhibited by CL-1 allows it to move both indoors and outdoors, enhancing its potential applications. The company highlighted the robot’s integration of real-time perception with gait planning, locomotion control, and hardware for accomplishing such complex tasks.
In detailed testing scenarios, CL-1 demonstrated advanced perception controls that enabled it to proactively adjust its movements. These features allowed the robot to navigate curbs smoothly, ascend stairs dynamically, and walk down slopes at an angle of 15 degrees, showcasing a high level of fluidity in its movements.
The tests covered a variety of environmental conditions, ranging from indoor to outdoor settings and from afternoon to dusk, to ensure consistent performance under different lighting and terrain. LimX Dynamics envisions future deployment of its humanoid robots in various sectors including hazardous situations, customer service, automotive manufacturing, and in-home services.
The design of the CL-1 robot incorporates artificial intelligence, advanced motion control, and proprietary hardware, which makes dynamic stair climbing and other complex movements possible. LimX Dynamics emphasizes that their environmental perception technology is critical to the continuous evolution of its humanoid robots.
LimX Dynamics approaches the design of CL-1 with cost, efficiency, and robustness in mind, featuring in-house developed actuators for better torque control and impact resistance. By harnessing both hardware and software advances, the aim is to create a versatile “general mobile manipulation platform” that can navigate and operate in any human-accessible location.
LimX is determined to develop a general-purpose humanoid robot, using consistent core algorithms across all robot models from wheeled quadrupeds to humanoids. They are focusing on the development of motion-control algorithms and the application of generative AI to achieve this, with CL-1 serving as a developmental platform for future humanoid technology challenges.
