The popularity of "Stray Earth 2" during the Spring Festival holiday has aroused the audience's curiosity and concern about related technologies. In this movie, a variety of forms and types of robots become the movie on the future of the world's countless enjoyment of the important and indispensable elements - there is the operation of inspection robots to detect the indicators, the door frame robot can be directly combat, but also a warehouse in the busy handling of mobile robots?
Mechanical exoskeletons are quite eye-catching among various industrial machinery. Exoskeleton armor made an appearance in "Stray Earth 1". This time, "Stray Earth 2" further upgrades it, each armor has an exclusive number, and the heavy exoskeleton armor as a whole is even more massive, the surface of the armor is more rich in detail.
Some of the mechanical equipment in sci-fi movies and TV shows are artistic recreations of real devices, and the exoskeleton armor is no exception. The exoskeleton robots in Wanderlust 2 have even "literally" made their way off the screen and into reality.
Many of the exoskeleton robots in the movie come from robotics company Aoshark Intelligence. The latter said, movie exoskeleton real version has been in a number of scenes on the ground, and the whole body exoskeleton has been in small batch production, the follow-up will also be launched civilian products.
The company even posted a sweepstakes on Weibo with a prize of one mass-produced exoskeleton product. As of press time, the microblogging retweet volume has been nearly 140,000 times, netizens have been in the comments marveled at, "you guys this has no illusion, only the application of science and technology," "the original is a real guy," "actually is real ".
Proud Shark Intelligence official website shows that its products include a variety of exoskeleton robots for the upper limbs, waist, lower limbs and so on. Among them, the BES-HV waist exoskeleton robot products can be up to 30kg maximum assistance, comprehensive load reduction of more than 60%, the maximum assisted speed of 7.5km / h, support for handling assistance, balance assistance, walking assistance 3 kinds of assistance mode.
Photo source: Aoshark Intelligence official website
According to the eye of the sky, Aoshark Intelligence has completed the Pre-A round of financing in November 2020, with investors including Nine Harmony Venture Capital, InnoAngel, and Mingshi Capital.
_Commercialization process gradually advancing mechanical exoskeleton applications blossomed
As a typical cross-border fusion products, mechanical exoskeletons involved in optoelectronics, computers, sensors, power, human-computer interfaces and other fields. Among them, the mechanical arm, hydraulic system, battery, protective armor and other hardware constitutes its "body"; operation control system, artificial intelligence system, the user's vital signs monitoring system and other software, it is composed of its "brain" and The "nerves".
It can combine hardware objective data and human subjective information from one-way output to two-way interaction, thus forming a more efficient human-machine integrated intelligent science system.
Today, the commercialization of exoskeleton robots is progressing.
Just before the Spring Festival on January 19, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other seventeen departments issued a "robot +" application action implementation program. Among them, in the field of elderly services, the program clearly put forward, "actively promote the exoskeleton robot, elderly care robots, etc. in the elderly service scene application verification"; and proposed to study the development of robots to help the elderly and disabled technical application standards, promote the integration of robots into the elderly service in different scenarios and key areas, to enhance the level of wisdom of elderly services. To enhance the level of wisdom of elderly services.
In addition to this, medical and defense are also two important application areas for exoskeletons.
Medical, EksoBionics, a medical and industrial exoskeleton technology company, recently acquired ParkerHannifinCorporation for $10 million to acquire the Human Motion and Control Division, which includes the company's Indego lower extremity exoskeleton product line, as well as plans to develop robotic-assisted orthotics and prosthetics. develop robotic-assisted orthotic and prosthetic devices.
Ekso's product, EksoNR, and the industry's first FDA-approved exoskeleton robot for acquired brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury, supports upright posture and teaches the wearer how to walk again and regain their natural gait.
On the defense side, exoskeletons can significantly improve a soldier's weight-bearing or grasping capabilities, expanding man-portable capabilities. In recent years, the development of military man-portable exoskeleton technology has been rapid, and there have been a number of mature products or a small range of installed.
The exoskeleton system developed by Spain, for example, has a weight capacity of up to 40 kilograms, and can assist soldiers in transporting materials over long distances. In addition, France has displayed a passive exoskeleton system in a military parade, which can transfer more than half of the load borne by a soldier's body to the ground, effectively reducing the pressure on the lower limbs of soldiers in long-distance weight-bearing march.
TheInsightPartners, a research organization, released a report in January this year, pointed out that the global exoskeleton robotic system market size of $1.00 billion in 2021, is expected to reach $4.22 billion in 2028, and the period of 2022-2028 will be at a CAGR of 23.0% growth.