00:00All right, we're going to switch segment now from bikes to robots, and so we have two gentlemen here who
00:08are going to talk to us about a robot called Ascento.
00:12This robot is a robot on wheels, but it can, apparently, get upstairs and pretty much outrun anyone.
00:21So here to tell you more, Ascento.
00:36Hi guys, we are Ascento, and our vision is to build automated, all-terrain, and truly scalable inspection robots.
00:50Currently, these inspections are not really automated, and the key for automation is really to collect data such that you
00:58can then do better decisions based on this data and make sure you have more uptime in your machinery.
01:04There are quite a few industries that are not yet that automated, like 3D scanning on a construction site.
01:09This is still a person who walks around with a 3D scanner, waits a couple of minutes, takes a scan,
01:15moves forward.
01:16Same with security and structure assessment.
01:19There are still people just doing very monotonous and repetitive tasks.
01:23We talked with these people and found out that they spend about one-third of their time just for data
01:29collection.
01:30And that is not great, because that makes people really unhappy.
01:33They do the same thing every day, and it becomes really difficult to staff this position.
01:40On top of that, these tasks are also quite dangerous.
01:43On the construction site, they are full of dangers.
01:47Same with security.
01:48So why not use a robot?
01:51So we thought about it.
01:52How would such a robot look like?
01:54And we defined sort of four categories that such a robot need to fulfill.
02:00The first one is cost.
02:02If you want to revolutionize any sort of old-school industry, you need to have a cost advantage.
02:08So a robot that costs three times more as a person will never work.
02:13So our focus from the beginning was to have a very cost-effective solution that can go wherever people can
02:18go.
02:19And then secondly, it's terrain, range, payload.
02:23So these technical features.
02:25If the robot can't really go or do these things, then nobody will want such a robot.
02:31So now Dominik is going to explain us a bit more how we then came up with the somehow ideal
02:37robot form factor
02:38to go wherever people can go and very cost-effective.
02:41Thank you.
02:42So taking the human as a baseline, the next logical step is to use a wheeled robot.
02:49Wheeled robots are great because they can do repetitive, dangerous, and costly tasks.
02:55But they're sort of limited to flat terrain, indoor, controlled environments.
03:02But they're really cheap.
03:05But if there's a small step, then they might already stop.
03:08So the next step would be to use legged systems.
03:13These can go wherever humans can go, all terrain.
03:16But the price increases dramatically.
03:19And the range also decreases.
03:22Because legged systems are not that really efficient, especially when you put payload onto it.
03:28So, what about just adding wheels to this quadruped?
03:33So now we can also drive fast, have more range.
03:38The cost is still a lot.
03:40And with those 16 motors needed, the payload have to carry.
03:46The energy is not that efficient.
03:49But what we introduce is the Ascentor concept, where we have a two-legged system with two wheels.
03:56So we only need four motors.
03:58This reduces the cost.
04:00We can still go wherever humans can go.
04:03And this for eight hours of battery life.
04:06So we have quite a lot of range.
04:08And 10 kilos of payload.
04:10But enough theory.
04:12Now a quick video.
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