LimX Dynamics Launches Its First Wheeled Quadruped, Achieving Breakthrough in Application of Legged Robots Through Motion Intelligence
LimX Dynamics, a general-purpose legged robot company, has launched its first wheeled quadruped robot W1. This groundbreaking product is based on LimX Dynamics’ Motion Intelligence technology. W1 is equipped with leading perception and motion control algorithms, and multiple proprietary high-performing actuators. It combines the advantages of legged and wheeled structures all in one, enabling it with powerful real-time terrain perception and all-terrain mobility. Ultimately W1 achieves significant improvement in legged robots’ capability. With the launch of the wheeled quadruped, LimX Dynamics aims at China’s untapped market and addressing customers’ pain points for B2B sectors such as industrial inspection, logistics and distribution, research and education. LimX Dynamics will start accepting pre-orders of W1 in the fourth quarter of this year.
LimX Dynamics’s wheeled quadruped is empowered by revolutionary technology and disruptive product capabilities:
The company’s in-house high-performing actuators maximize the integrated capabilities of legged and wheeled structure robots. This enables high-dynamic motion and all-terrain obstacle-overcoming abilities, making it more efficient and agile compared to quadruped robot, and more suitable for most real-world application scenarios.
Equipped with Perceptive Locomotion algorithms, LimX Dynamics W1 has successfully conquered extremely challenging discrete terrains such as stairs. It can cover most complex non-wheeled scenarios. It is the first wheeled quadruped robot in China to have autonomous terrain perception ability and to accomplish stair climbing and descending through real-time gait planning and control.
Thanks to its inherent morphological advantages and top-notch hardware and software capabilities, W1 has outstanding mobility efficiency, payload capacity, and cruising range, truly meeting the real-world usage requirements from customers.
LimX Dynamics’s wheeled quadruped W1 has tested its ability of dealing with multiple application scenarios, making it well prepared for practical applications.
Highly dynamic motion: The high-performing actuators unleash the superb mobility capabilities of the complex wheel-legged structure.
Climbing stairs: Integrated with perception-based motion control, W1 achieves stable climbing up and down stairs with gaited motion.
Ascending and descending slopes: The robot body can maintain a level surface position with both the slope surface and the ground, flexibly switchable.
Road curbs: Flexibly and freely switching gait to easily cope with challenges from various discrete terrains.
Ground clearance: During high-speed motion, freely adjust body height to meet the needs of different application environments.
One-sided bridge: Allowing the robot to adapt to the terrain, instead of the terrain adapting to the robot, maintaining smooth movement regardless of terrain variations.
Grass and slate roads: When passing through bumpy roads, multiple joints of the legs respond in synergy to minimize body posture fluctuations.
Gravel road: The ingenious wheel-legged structure can step or roll, combining the high traversability of legged structures with the high efficiency of wheeled structures.
Wheeled quadrupeds are supposed to possess almost all the capabilities of quadruped robots. However, the challenges of perception interference, state estimation, and motion control brought about by the wheel-and-leg mixture increased dramatically. Without a mature solution worldwide to solve the long-standing problems in both academia and the industry, LimX Dynamics needs to give full play to the advantages of composition of wheels and legs.
LimX Dynamics masters the core technologies of Motion Intelligence for legged robots. Utilizing academic and R&D experience in terrain perception, reinforcement learning, multi-rigid body dynamics, hybrid dynamics, and model predictive control, the company establishes a leading algorithm framework that integrates perception and control, achieving higher stability and stronger real-time control capabilities.
To achieve the leap from prototype to product, it is particularly crucial to facilitate real-time interaction between the robot and its environment. Since its inception, LimX Dynamics has focused on addressing the combination of perception and motion control as its core technology. The company has developed proprietary high-performing actuators, and defined hardware according to software algorithms, allowing the wheeled quadruped to fully leverage its exceptional physical motion capabilities.
