Vimar's First Humanoid Robot VersaBot with Pure Vision Navigation Released

TapTechNews August 25th news, from August 21st to 25th, the 2024 World Robot Conference was held in Beijing. Vimar VMR released the first humanoid robot VersaBot (Weibao) at the conference, and the official claimed that this is the world's first pure vision humanoid robot.

TapTechNews attached the parameters of VersaBot as follows:

Model: VB-1

Height: 160 centimeters (about 5.25 feet)

Arm span: 200 centimeters (about 6.56 feet)

Navigation method: Pure vision navigation

Security protection: 360° visual obstacle avoidance

Docking method: 3D visual docking

Working ability: Mobile handling, mobile grasping, loading and unloading, sorting

VersaBot adopts 3D pure vision navigation, equipped with an RGBD camera, which can collect three-dimensional environmental natural features and form a depth image into a point cloud map without any manual marking to achieve unmarked positioning and navigation; it has a 270° x 70° field of view, a resolution of 1608 x 280, a frame rate of 10 fps and a perception ability of 30 meters, and can obtain RGB and 3D point cloud information in real time.

VersaBot is equipped with 4 obstacle avoidance cameras around, supports the identification of black highly reflective objects, has a built-in obstacle avoidance algorithm, supports IO output of RGB-D and depth multimodal information, has a working distance of 0.2 to 4 meters, and can detect suspended obstacles and low obstacles in real time.

VersaBot is equipped with a high-precision binocular RGB-D and depth multimodal camera, with a ranging range of 300 to 600 millimeters, a field of view range of 110° × 90°, and an identification accuracy of ±0.1 millimeter at 350 millimeters, with its own computing power of 6 TOPS, which can realize high-precision positioning and accurate grasping of the target object.