Product profile
Ambidex
Ambidex is NAVER LABS lightweight dual-arm robot for dexterous manipulation research. Its cable-driven arms are designed for safe, force-sensitive interact...
Facts
- Company
- NAVER LABS Corp.
- Product type
- semi_humanoid
- Status
- research
- Primary capability
- manipulation
- Website
- https://www.naverlabs.com/en/ambidex
About Ambidex
Ambidex uses remote cable-driven actuation to keep motor mass away from its arms, producing lightweight links with low inertia around people and objects. Two articulated arms provide human-scale reach and can regulate contact force during coordinated manipulation. The mechanism combines strength with mechanical compliance for tasks involving delicate, deformable or uncertain objects.
NAVER LABS developed the platform with KOREATECH to study how robots can learn force, timing and control from human demonstrations. Research workflows include teleoperation, reinforcement learning and transfer of human manipulation skills into two-arm tasks. Ambidex remains a research platform supporting NAVER LABS’ work on service robotics and physical interaction.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Semi-Humanoid
Core: Dual-arm work
Function: Manipulation
Audience: Researchers
Specifications
- actuation
- innovative cable-driven mechanisms mimicking human muscle function providing lightweight, flexible, fast arm movements with high precision and safe force control
- arm_weight_kg
- 2.6 kg per arm kg
- battery_life
- 480 minutes (8 hours)
- compute
- onboard processors supporting real-time control, haptic feedback processing, AI-based learning and adaptation
- configuration
- dual-arm humanoid robot with sensor head, torso, waist (evolved from arm-only version unveiled 2017)
- dof_per_arm
- 7
- gripper
- BLT Gripper capable of changing to various grasping methods
- height_cm
- 186 cm cm
- max_speed_mps
- 5 m/s
- payload_per_arm
- 3 kg max
- physical_intelligence
- ability to learn humans' physical intelligence (motor/physical capabilities performed naturally by humans but difficult to verbalize/digitalize), concept by Professor Sangbae Kim (MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab, tech advisor for Naver Labs)
- safety
- innovative force transfer mechanism satisfying both robustness and safety, safe for human interaction at speeds up to 5 m/s
- sensors
- force and position sensors integrated with cable-driven mechanisms, haptic sensors for tactile feedback, vision sensors for task environment perception, sensor head for object perception
- software
- real-time motion planning and control algorithms, AI learning modules for task adaptation, remote operation software supporting 5G connectivity, physical intelligence learning (closed source)
- tasks
- dicing vegetables, assembling furniture, playing table tennis, food preparation, laundry, serving, nursing, rehabilitation, household chores, precise manipulation and assembly tasks, complex dual-arm coordination
Operations
- Product detail
- semi_humanoid, mobile_manipulator_platform, Wheeled humanoid-style robot; classified as Semi-Humanoid rather than generic mobile manipulator., semi_humanoid, research, dual_arm_humanoid_platform, mobile_manipulator, Semi-Humanoid, semi_humanoid, semi_humanoid