Bodies
Motors, sensors, batteries: the unglamorous breakthroughs that made capable robots affordable.
Chapter 4 of A Brief History of Embodied Intelligence
“Their motors cost tens of thousands of dollars each. Mine cost a few hundred yuan. Same basic physics, just different manufacturing approach.” — Wang Xingxing, Unitree Robotics
In the summer of 2017, in a rented factory space on the outskirts of Hangzhou, a 29-year-old engineer named Wang Xingxing was…
