Press Release
Fan Wu Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Seer Robotics Wheeled Humanoid Robot in Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Fan Wu for robotics, automaton and automation design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Seer Robotics Wheeled Humanoid Robot by Fan Wu, designed for Shanghai Seer Intelligent Technology Co.,Ltd., has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design category. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Seer Robotics Wheeled Humanoid Robot
Seer Robotics is a wheeled humanoid robot developed for industrial tasks. The robot switches between two modes. In motion mode, a lowered posture allows fast movement of up to 10 metres per second. In work mode, a raised posture lets the robotic arm, hand and chassis work together on a wide range of tasks. Each task can be set through natural language or an application, and the robot then uses a semantic map to navigate and avoid obstacles. Aluminium alloy and PEEK parts support use in high temperature environments.
Award Record
Fan Wu is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2024 - 2025 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design Award
The A' Robotics Design Award is an international robotics design competition recognizing good robotics designs by robotics designers and engineers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to robotics designers, automation engineers, robotics brands and robot manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include industrial robots, medical robots, agricultural robots, domestic robots, autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. Awarded robotics designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/robotics
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/171709
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/171709
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!171709
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/303675
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Seer Robotics Wheeled Humanoid Robot
- Function
- Wheeled Humanoid Robot
- Category
- Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing and Innovation
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dim Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Shanghai Seer Intelligent Technology Co.,Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Fan Wu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #171709
Credits
- Team
- Wu Fan
- Image Credits
- Shanghai Seer Intelligent Technology Co.,Ltd.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- SEER Robotics has developed a wheeled humanoid robot capable of switching motion and work modes, allowing for autonomous adjustments based on task requirements to facilitate task generalization in complex scenarios. In motion mode, the robot can achieve high speed movement of up to 10 m/s by lowering its posture. While in work mode, the robot elevates its posture and utilizes the multi DOF collaboration of its robotic arm, hand, and chassis to effectively perform a wide array of tasks.
- Inspiration
- As the community faces an aging population and the imperative to enhance productivity, there is a growing demand for multifunctional and intelligent industrial robots that can fully relieve humans from intense, risky, and repetitive labor. The rapid advancement of AI technology, coupled with SEER Robotics' multimodal adaptability, enables the robot to achieve true end to end intelligence across various scenarios.
- Research
- SEER robotics applications cover semi-automated human-machine collaboration, automated production lines, and certain scenarios demanding high precision, such as semiconductor manufacturing. The arm joints and the core controller feature a transparent design, facilitating maintenance checks by staff. The modularized arm and hand enable quick disassembly and replacement. The robust geometric design imparts a sense of stability and strength and embodies mechanical and futuristic senses.
- Challenge
- The availability of extensive AI training data is the key to developing industrial grade wheeled humanoid robots. SEER is database, constructed over a decade of research and development in industrial robotics, has documented essential execution data, including dynamic path planning, non standard grasping techniques, and responses to usual conditions. This advances the development of industrial grade dual posture wheeled humanoid robots with adaptive learning capabilities.
- Realization and Technology
- Constructed from aluminum alloys and PEEK materials, which have a glass transition temperature exceeding 140°C and can withstand long term use at temperatures up to 260°C, this humanoid robot is designed to endure high temperature industrial environments, such as steel smelting, or operate in hot climates. Additionally, the laser sensor features a defogging coating that prevents water condensation, allowing for a broad operational temperature range from -25°C to 60°C.
- Operation and Interaction
- The process to interact with wheeled humanoid robot: a task such as fetching a water cup can be set through natural language or an APP. The system then generates a 3D map enriched with semantic information. Modularized hardware components, such as a gripping arm or camera, can be assembled as needed, and motion parameters can be adjusted via a graphical interface. Once the task is assigned, the robot utilizes the semantic map to navigate and avoid obstacles until the task is done.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project commenced in January 2024 in Shanghai, wrapped up in August 2024 in the same city, and was subsequently exhibited in September 2024 at the Shanghai International Industry Fair.
- Keywords
- Dual Posture Configuration, Wheeled, Humanoid Robot, Efficient, Adaptive
