Instead of equipping its sharp-looking with a full next-gen sensor suite including such things as radar and LiDAR, Fourier Intelligence's engineers have gone vision-only. The GR-1 packs six RGB cameras around its frame for a 360-degree view of the world around it. This setup also caters for the creation of a birds-eye-view map using the camera data and a neural network that learns from context to generate 3D spatial features and virtual objects.
The company says that the technology "then translates data into a three-dimensional occupancy grid, helping GR-1 navigate passable and impassable areas." The bot has recently undertaken outdoor walking tests, where it's reported to have demonstrated "high efficiency and accuracy in detecting vehicles and pedestrians along sidewalks" in real-time. As with Tesla's to run its Autopilot systems using mostly vision systems, this development path should reduce hardware costs significantly – all while "enhancing GR-1’s environmental perception, achieving safer and more efficient operations with human-like precision.
" The current GR-1 model looks very different to the we were introduced to last year. Fourier's states that it's able to walk at speed with a human-like gait across various surfaces, with adaptive balance algorithms helping to keep it upright when ascending or descending slopes. The company reports that it features 54 degrees of freedom across its body – which translates to three each in the head a waist, seven in each arm a.
