Covance, founded in 1998, is one of the earliest manufacturers to enter the "race track" of service robots in China. However, to some extent, after 2021, Coves has been upgraded into an AI robot company integrating production and research. It is also one of the few manufacturers with core IoT/robot technologies such as global path planning, 3D obstacle avoidance technology, sweeping and dragging integration.
With the newly released intelligent AI sweeping robot, the T10 TURBO, we can also see the difference between the "AI Robot Company" and traditional manufacturers in terms of product perspective and function starting point. Or, to put it bluntly, it is a dimension reduction attack.
After "conquering" the cleaning problem, the household floor cleaning robot has been striving to optimize the user experience in recent years. From the user's point of view, the pain points of the previous robot mopping include: obstacle avoidance and route planning are not intelligent enough, the mopping effect is not obvious, the mop needs to be manually cleaned and replaced by the user (the robot cleans the ground, and then you clean the robot), the mop is easy to smell, and the trouble in APP operation makes it difficult for other family members, such as the elderly and children, to use it.
However, Kovos broke the point from the perspective of developing AI robot technology, so that T10 TURBO can have the AI ability of "listening, watching, thinking and planning" like human beings, thus essentially improving the use experience of sweeping robots.
Although Covos Dibao T10 TURBO has enhanced sweeping and mopping effect, no need for hand washing, and hot air drying mops and other conventional functions, its more significant feature is that the self-developed YIKO intelligent voice system integrates AIVI ™ 3.0 visual recognition, TrueMapping 2.0 global planning and other functions are organically linked together, giving the Coworth Dibao T10 TURBO a more easy interaction and more intelligent use experience. The product concept is already different.
An AI sweeping robot that truly "understands" human words
The interaction of modern "intelligent" sweeping robots relies heavily on mobile phone apps. In addition to the physical buttons at the beginning and end, selecting cleaning areas, cleaning modes, mapping, and even adjusting suction, the apps must be opened to exclude the elderly and children from the user group in disguise. The other extreme is "simple operation without app", which is called by some manufacturers to lighten the burden of "users with natural fear of electronic devices", but also cut off the possibility for users to understand and control the machine. Before the appearance of perfect AI assistance, such setting is not advisable.
When manufacturers realized that there were problems with the versatility and ease of use of App operation, voice assistant naturally appeared on the sweeping robot. However, in the field of sweeping robots, until now, only Kovos has been doing "real" AI voice intelligence, which can use natural spoken language to do all kinds of precise control and adjustment, so that the elderly and children who are not convenient to use APP can also operate.
The underlying reason for the difference may be that Coworth chose the technical route of developing its own voice system. Covos has a complete speech knowledge base and speech recognition technology, and spoken language is converted into characters, intention recognition and operation instructions. Voice commands that are much faster than the App, such as "start/pause, maximum suction, and rapid mapping", are basic operations.
The laser radar on the top of Dibao T10 TURBO is integrated with 3 microphone arrays ↑
Since it is a voice assistant, Dibao T10 TURBO, like Siri and Xiaoai, naturally has various voice interaction functions such as time broadcast, digital calculation, manual question and answer, etc. However, unlike previous voice AI products, Dibao T10 TURBO is a "walking voice assistant".
The voice wake-up and response speed of Dibao T10 TURBO are close to those of Xiaoai, Xiaoyi and Tmall Genie. However, because it can give instructions to the machine without resorting to a third-party voice assistant, the command richness and operation response that its voice can support are not comparable to previous products.
Having used this voice system in person, we can see that the original intention of the self-developed by Coves is to achieve more thorough and intelligent AI voice interaction. Just as only Apple, which integrates software and hardware, can fully exploit all the potential of hardware, the third-party voice assistant will not make in-depth adaptation for the sweeping robot.
In fact, the imagination space of the voice assistant that only queries and simply controls the robot is very limited. Although the manufacturer wants more functions, the voice assistant that is born from the perspective of the mobile phone manufacturer is limited by the provider of the voice assistant.
The self developed voice assistant, Kovos, will not have similar problems, and can make AI functions with greater integration depth, such as the interesting chemical reaction between voice and 3D map on the T10 TURBO of Dibao.
Among the 3D map functions featured by Covos, there are a large number of 3D home models, which can be arbitrarily placed to restore the actual layout of the home. Now, this function can also quickly name and divide the map area, and make voice commands accurate to every room, even every piece of furniture.
The actual effect is that the T10 TURBO can really understand the refined voice commands, and you can control the T10 TURBO with completely natural interactive languages such as "OK YIKO to drag the floor in the kitchen, sweep the dusty garbage, sweep the study first and then the living room". From a macro perspective, Dibao T10 TURBO has completed multi-level thinking logic, "understand your words" and started to reflect biological intelligence.
Tuna T10 TURBO ↑ called by voice
What can better reflect the role of AI is that Dibao T10 TURBO can "summon and clean". At the same time, Kovos has mastered core technologies such as sound source localization, AIVI TM 3.0 human shape recognition and TrueMapping precision navigation. You don't even need to name any place or area. You can call robots directly like vague references to human communication. This is the most natural and threshold free voice control mode.
On the contrary, from the moment when Coworth built its own voice assistant, The starting line of YIKO intelligent voice system is the finishing line of many sweeping robots.
Automotive Computer Vision: Obstacle Avoidance System for "Understandable" Furniture Items
Also "exposing" the core of Corvos AI, there are dToF sensors used on Dibao T10 TURBO, and the horizon sunrise of automatic driving level ® 3 chips and AIVI ™ 3.0 Visual Identification Technology. When similar products are still "pie husky" at home, AIVI ™ 3.0 Visual recognition enables the T10 TURBO of Kovos to "understand" various common obstacles in the home, such as household, garbage cans and even scales.
The horizon sunrise of its autonomous driving level ® 3 chip already has 5TOPS AI computing power. What is this concept? The Kirin 970 carrying the Cambrian NPU only had 1.92 TOPS, and the AI computing power of this chip was between the Snapdragon 845 and the Snapdragon 855. Rising sun on the horizon ® The 3-chip chip has increased the AI computing power of the Cowos T10 TURBO by 16 times, and the recognition speed and accuracy are 20% higher than that of the T9 AIVI, which forms the physical basis of the super image processing ability of this sweeping robot.
In order to make Dibao T10 TURBO "intelligible" as well as "intelligible", this generation of products is equipped with 960P sensor, which supports HDR and improves the twilight effect. Better image quality directly benefits the video butler function. The built-in automatic cruise of the whole house enables Dibao T10 TURBO to cruise while cleaning the house like a small guard. The three microphones and loud speakers facilitate video calls and also improve the efficiency of playing with cats and dogs.
The original intention of Covos to upgrade the camera of Dibao T10 TURBO is to make Covos T10 TURBO better use its computer vision ability.
Can distinguish the ground material ↑
Dibao T10 TURBO's ability to recognize objects is far richer and more advanced than previous products. In addition to recognizing creatures such as human shapes and pets, it can also distinguish furniture such as beds, tea tables, TV cabinets, sofas, dining tables and chairs, trash cans and toilets (forcibly counting furniture), as well as obstacles such as lines, socks, shoes, cloth, etc. What is more special is that plane doors, ground materials, steps, thresholds, etc. can also be distinguished.
Like intelligent driving, machine vision recognizes and classifies the objects seen like human beings, but it does not need to show users complicated technical details. It is really "real technology makes you feel it doesn't exist". Users will only notice that there are more obstacle avoidance modes for Dibao T10 TURBO. It will adjust the obstacle avoidance distance according to the type of obstacles. When facing obstacles that are slightly larger or easier to wind, Dibao T10 TURBO will also change the route planning in real time.
Camera indicator light that will light up after entering the video butler ↑
Even though the visual function has been upgraded, Covance still pays more attention to privacy protection than other manufacturers. After September 2021, a large number of new Kovos products will have Rhine privacy security certification, and Dibao T10 TURBO is no exception.
By default, Dibao T10 TURBO will light the indicator beside the camera to remind users when the camera is triggered. It can also turn on private voice reminders in the app. Every 15 minutes, there will be a voice prompt of "in video", so that when the robot is used as a chat tool, it can more easily grasp the state of the camera.
More decisive path planning+better mapping function
The new dToF sensor and the upgraded TrueMapping 2.0 global planning technology have been used in Covance. The new sensor has changed to a closed design and is not afraid of dust. Besides reducing the trouble of maintenance, Dibao T10 TURBO also lengthens the wavelength of the modulated optical signal. The effect is that Dibao T10 TURBO is now not afraid of the interference of the indoor direct sunlight area to the laser sensor, and is not affected by the darkness at night. It can accurately navigate around the clock.
Compared with LDS navigation products, the T10 TURBO of Coworth Dibao has twice the scanning range and four times the mapping accuracy. The 10 meter scanning range+10 times the mapping speed makes the T10 TURBO scanning of Dibao extremely fast. Although the machine mapping will still follow the steps, in fact, as long as there is no direct cover, the T10 TURBO can see the general layout of the house on the app in tens of seconds and call the good guy directly.
TrueMapping 2.0 has higher mapping accuracy. Dibao T10 TURBO can clean the edge of obstacles at a very close distance ↑
After machine vision can distinguish furniture, cables, cloth and other obstacles, Dibao T10 TURBO will set different obstacle avoidance distances for obstacles with different "danger levels". When encountering cloth obstacles that are more likely to wind and block, the obstacle avoidance distance will be pulled larger than that of cable obstacles to ensure the "human" safety of the robot ↑
With the help of machine vision, the route planning of Dibao T10 TURBO is more bold and simple than the previous products ↑
The sundries such as slippers and wire rods scattered on the ground are what they are like before you go out, and what they are like when you come back. If the ground hadn't become clean, you wouldn't even notice that the Dibao T10 TURBO has ever appeared. It really is "real technology makes you feel it doesn't exist".
The 3D house type map function has also been fully upgraded. Furniture movement will have very accurate dimensions, and the machine itself can generate 3D maps. TrueMapping 2.0's positioning accuracy enables Dibao T10 TURBO to quickly determine the cleaning area by clicking furniture, which is especially suitable for fixed-point "cleaning up the mess" after dinner.
The automatic image storage and backup functions can also be restored with one click when encountering the problem of long corridor overlay. One thing to say is that the functional details of Covance have really enriched a lot in this year.
Step by step enhanced sweeping and dragging function: everything is for more ease of mind
Fully armed treasure T10 TURBO ↑
When the magnetic suction mop rack is installed, the T10 TURBO of Dibao can switch modes, and the sweeping function can be turned on at the same time. After all, it is "one sweep, two rolls, three suction and four drag", and the design efficiency is higher than the independent sweep or drag.
The suction of Dibao T10 TURBO is 3000 Pa, and the four gears are adjustable. The garbage on the smooth ground is not difficult at all. In fact, the previous 2000Pa Kevos is fully adequate, but the increased suction can provide more margin for carpet materials, and also enable the T10 TURBO to move at a faster speed. In fact, the second gear is enough for daily use. It is the best gear to balance the quietness, endurance and cleaning effects.
About half a centimeter of mop travel ↑
For the mopping part, Dibao T10 TURBO also adopts OZMO ™ Turbo 2.0 system, double disk magnetic suction mop, 180 rpm rotating pressure, counter rotating design.
Dibao T10 TURBO deals with the high concentration instant coffee known as the "ground lethal weapon" ↑
Dibao T10 TURBO has replaced a different mop design, and the texture and composition of the mop have changed. Even through manual experience, it can be found that its decontamination power is stronger than that of the previous generation. But the most gratifying change for me is that the mop becomes darker and dirtier.
Separate clean water tank and sewage tank with 4L capacity ↑
The most obvious improvement in sweeping and dragging capability is naturally the multifunctional base station of Dibao T10 TURBO.
Kevos still remembers to add detergent and cleaning brush to the accessory storage box of the base station ↑
The special detergent has also become the "blue wind chime" fragrance that is very popular in the fragrance function of Coworth. This time, the cleaning brush even has a retractable design. It has both environmental protection and storage performance.
Base station infrared temperature detection ↑
The multifunctional base station of Dibao T10 TURBO can not only clean the mop automatically, but also dry the mop with hot air. In addition to solving the odor problem caused by the proliferation of bacteria in the process of drying mops in the shade, it also permanently solved the embarrassing situation that mops could not be dried when they returned to Nantian.
When drying mops, the power of the base station is about 100W. The heat source is at the air outlets on both sides of the base station cavity. The hot air blows from top to bottom. The room temperature is 25 ℃, and the air outlet temperature is stable between 40-41 ℃. The temperature setting is lower than the game temperature of most mobile phones, which is very gentle and safe. The fast drying takes about 2 hours. The dried mop also has the blue wind bell smell of a special cleaner, which provides the fragrance function in disguise. A silver ion sterilization module is also reserved on the back of the base station, which can be purchased additionally if necessary.
The stronger endurance enables Dibao T10 TURBO to be suitable for larger units. The movement speed of the Dibao T10 TURBO seems to be slightly faster than that of the previous models, and the cleaning speed is higher than the common one of 1 minute and 1 square meter. In addition to the sweeping and towing integrated design, there is still 42% of the remaining power to complete the cleaning of 120 square meters, which is really close to the long-term endurance of the official standard of COVOS of 290 square meters.
Start sweeping robot of "rolling" AI
The T10 series of Kevos Dibao includes T10 without base station and T10 TURBO with base station, priced at 2799 yuan and 3999 yuan respectively, filling the price gap between X1 OMNI/X1 TURBO and N9+/T9 Power.
From the more scratch resistant process treatment of Dibao T10 TURBO, the improvement of 3000Pa absolute suction, the cleaning effect and more dirt resistant new mop, the multi-functional base station with the function of hot air drying, and even the ability to work part-time as a special detergent for aromatherapy, we can see the improvement of Kovos in design, sweeping and mopping effect step by step.
Dibao T10 TURBO is an attempt to push household robots to a broader market. The Dibao X1 and T10 series are more close to the public definition of "robot" sweeping robots, and as the core of the robot company, Covance is becoming more and more obvious.
The unique self-developed YIKO voice system has made Covos the only manufacturer that can control the integration of software and hardware for voice interaction, and has enabled Dibao T10 TURBO to have fuzzy semantic commands, quickly specify furniture areas in 3D maps, and call cleaning functions that are not even needed for the reference areas.
Kovos uses YIKO voice system to convert AIVI ™ 3.0 visual recognition, TrueMapping 2.0 global navigation and other functional advantages are connected in series, making Dibao T10 TURBO a more intelligent robot and making an AI experience closer to the "human" dimension. The starting point of introducing voice interaction function in Covance may be to reduce the interaction dependence of sweeping robots on mobile phones and reduce the threshold for different people to use. However, as a result, it is Coworth that has truly evolved the "sweeper" into a "sweeping robot" and has "rolled" the industry into a new AI direction.
