{"id":171035,"date":"2023-08-31T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/gr-1-general-purpose-humanoid-robot-will-carry-nearly-its-own-weight"},"modified":"2023-08-31T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:23:08","slug":"gr-1-general-purpose-humanoid-robot-will-carry-nearly-its-own-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/gr-1-general-purpose-humanoid-robot-will-carry-nearly-its-own-weight","title":{"rendered":"GR-1 general-purpose humanoid robot will carry nearly its own weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gr-1-general-purpose-humanoid-robot-will-carry-nearly-its-own-weight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese company Fourier Intelligence says it plans to manufacture 100 of its GR-1 general-purpose humanoid robots by the end of 2023, making the remarkable promise that they\u2019ll be able to carry nearly their own weight. They also have a unique focus.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dYhycqEsWDk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fourier seems to specialize mainly in rehabilitation technologies; its <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dYhycqEsWDk&t=12s\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">RehabHub<\/a> platform offers a series of integrated physical therapy devices for treating various issues, from wrist strength games to hand and finger grip training, all the way up to lower-body exoskeletons for training people to walk, sit, stand, balance and climb stairs.<\/p>\n<p>As such, the GR-1 humanoid project, launched back in 2019, might seem a little out of left field. But on the other hand, a lower-body physical therapy exoskeleton probably uses a lot of the same hardware, and needs to solve a lot of the same problems, as a robot\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese company Fourier Intelligence says it plans to manufacture 100 of its GR-1 general-purpose humanoid robots by the end of 2023, making the remarkable promise that they\u2019ll be able to carry nearly their own weight. They also have a unique focus. Fourier seems to specialize mainly in rehabilitation technologies; its RehabHub platform offers a series [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}