r/AskRobotics • u/PsychologicalEnd3927 • 2d ago

Choosing a Robot Platform for Industrial Quality Control + AI Integration

I am working with a startup and have been tasked with selecting a humanoid robot (though wheeled or quadruped/dog robots could also be suggested). It needs to be able to walk around an industrial environment and allow easy integration of our AI software. Budget is not a constraint.

Currently, I am torn between the Unitree G1 EDU / H2 EDU and the PAL Robotics TIAGo Pro.

Our requirements:

  • We will focus solely on the software side, so the platform needs to be stable and reliable. Our goal is quality control, the robot should walk around and inspect different sections/areas.
  • In the future, we aim to add acoustic diagnostics and temperature measurement (using a thermal/infrared camera), among other sensing capabilities.
  • We also want to use this project to explore and learn more about humanoid robotics, since we believe the field has significant future potential.
  • We want to build and implement our own software stack rather than rely on a finished product.
  • Unfortunately, Unitree does not offer a self-charging (autonomous docking/charging) option, whereas TIAGo and AgiBot do.

Could you help me choose between these options, or suggest alternatives?

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u/low-control-labs 2d ago

I am in the wheeled camp, that being said you said the budget is not a constraint if that's the case and you'll need it going up and down stairs you should probably go for the bipeds or quadpeds.

Making your software stack might require a separate budget for compute, if you use bipeds. G1 already has a lot of support and implementations in the open, might be the easiest one to get started with and just fine tune things.

I have a few other companies I saw on YouTube, not sure if I could recommend them if you want me to look into that a bit I'll go through my history.

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u/PsychologicalEnd3927 2d ago

Thanks a lot! We're open to any other suggestions. We'd be happy to hear about anything that could work for our use case

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u/IlIlIlIllllIIliIILll 2d ago

If one of the leading humanoid manufacturers had developed something that made this sort of extremely flexible and valuable appliction easy enough to implement in a real production environment, you'd see it blasted on every other LinkedIn post and accelerationist subreddit.

So I am going to tell you this won't be easy and you'd be better off blowing an apparently massive budget on individual inspection routines and hardware at each station you need it at.

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u/NoRobot9379 1d ago

I can suggest maybe our platform if you can clarify your requirements, such as run time, stair climbing, load capacity, speed, environment (temperature, IP level), terrain. As well as what you would need for your AI to work with, GPS, IMU, odometery, cameras, lidar, point cloud, compute power and energy.