Ambidex

Canonical robot record

Overview

Ambidex is a dual-arm robot from NAVER LABS, the R&D subsidiary of South Korea's NAVER, created through a long-term research collaboration with KOREATECH and Professor Yong-Jae Kim. Its defining feature is an innovative cable-driven power-transmission mechanism that lets each arm stay exceptionally light while remaining strong and stable, so the robot can move quickly yet interact gently and safely with people.

NAVER LABS positions Ambidex as research toward robot arms suited to home and collaborative settings, where machines must share space with humans rather than operate behind safety cages. The robot was recognized in the robotics and drones category of the CES 2019 Innovation Awards.

Beyond the hardware, NAVER LABS has used Ambidex as a platform for networked and learning-based control. With Qualcomm it demonstrated 5G-connected ('brainless') teleoperation in which heavy computation runs off-board, and it has built environments for haptic-device-based task learning from human demonstration.

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