Ambidex Context

Market context

Ambidex is NAVER LABS' lightweight cable-driven dual-arm robot designed for safe, human-like manipulation and haptic control in research environments.

  • Target environment: Research labs, robotics development facilities and human-robot interaction research spaces.
  • Workflow context: Dual-arm manipulation, haptic interaction, teleoperation and embodied AI research using cable-driven actuation for safe physical interaction.
  • Customer context: Robotics researchers, manipulation labs and AI teams studying safe physical human-robot interaction.
  • Deployment model: Research platform available through NAVER LABS product channels.
  • Commercial maturity: Active research platform with strong academic and industry research adoption.
  • Adoption constraints: Cable-driven design prioritizes safety and compliance over payload and speed. Best suited to research rather than production environments.
  • Market position: A manipulation-first research platform focused on safe physical interaction. Sits in the mobile manipulation research space alongside other dual-arm platforms.
  • Adjacent products: Astribot S1, AgiBot G2, cable-driven manipulation platforms

Specifications

  • Arm Weight Kg: 2.6 kg per arm (CES2019 configuration)
  • Dof Per Arm: 7 per arm
  • Payload Per Arm: ≤3 kg per arm (CES2019 configuration)
  • actuation and motion control: Cable-driven arm mechanism for lightweight force-controlled interaction
  • Gripper: BLT Gripper with selectable grasping methods (2020 task-learning configuration)
  • robotics sensors: Object-perception sensor head (2020 task-learning configuration)
  • Software: Bilateral haptic teleoperation and learning from human demonstrations; 5G remote control demonstrated in CES2019 configuration
  • Physical Intelligence: Task learning from human motion and force-control demonstrations
  • Safety: Cable-driven low-mass arms designed for safe human interaction; no named safety certification specified
  • End Effector Speed Mps: 5 m/s arm movement (CES2019 configuration)
  • Waist Dof: 3-axis waist added in June2019 configuration

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