With core advantages of all-terrain adaptability, high load and long endurance, and modular expansion, the Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can cover full-scenario needs such as inspection and O&M, emergency rescue, logistics transfer, and research and education. The following are core application scenarios and benchmark cases.
(I) Core Inspection Scenarios
1. Power Grid Inspection
In power facility scenarios such as substations, switching stations, distribution rooms, transmission lines, and photovoltaic power stations, equipment is widely distributed, safety levels are high, and manual inspection risks are high. The Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can replace O&M personnel to complete 7*24-hour uninterrupted inspection tasks. The robot can conduct full-dimensional patrols of transformers, circuit breakers, disconnectors, instrument transformers, photovoltaic modules, wind turbines, and other equipment along preset routes. It carries a high-definition zoom camera to photograph the status of key parts such as oil level gauges, air pressure gauges, open/close indicator signs, and equipment indicator lights. It uses an infrared thermal imager to detect the temperature of equipment joints, clamps, bushings, photovoltaic modules, and other parts prone to heating, accurately identifying local hot spots, heating hazards, and equipment anomalies. When sulfur hexafluoride pressure anomalies, low oil levels, joint heating, photovoltaic module hot spots, and other conditions are found, the robot immediately pushes alarm information to the backend and synchronously returns on-site data and images, providing a basis for O&M personnel to handle the situation. For indoor scenarios such as distribution rooms and switching stations, the robot can carry a gas detector to monitor SF6 gas concentration and a noise sensor to identify abnormal equipment operating sounds, providing early warning of hidden faults. For high-altitude transmission lines, towers, and other scenarios, the robot can carry a lightweight inspection module to complete inspection tasks for high towers and transmission lines, avoiding the risk of personnel working at height.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + dual-spectrum gimbal camera + infrared thermal imager + gas detector + noise sensor + 5G communication module
Benchmark case: A domestic leading photovoltaic enterprise's Xi'an workshop factory inspection project. In a completely dark task environment, the Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) completed 7*24-hour unmanned autonomous inspection, detecting in real time damage to precision equipment and instruments in the workshop and hazardous gas leakage. When equipment and on-site conditions were abnormal, it promptly provided early warning response and generated reports uploaded to the data center, realizing full-process unmanned workshop inspection. Inspection efficiency increased by more than 90%, the missed inspection rate was reduced to 0, and a large amount of manual inspection costs was saved for the enterprise.
2. Intelligent Factory Inspection
In factory scenarios in industries such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, automotive manufacturing, electronics processing, and food and beverage, equipment is dense, pipelines are complex, and environmental parameter requirements are high. The Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can achieve autonomous inspection and environmental monitoring of the entire factory area. The robot can patrol production equipment, electrical control cabinets, pipeline valves, instruments, fire-fighting facilities, and other equipment at scheduled times along preset routes. It uses the vision module to check equipment operating status indicator lights, pressure gauge readings, oil level height, and valve opening; uses the infrared thermal imager to detect the temperature of motors, control cabinets, terminal blocks, and pipeline flanges; uses gas sensors to monitor the concentration of toxic and harmful gases and combustible gases in chemical workshops; and uses temperature and humidity sensors to monitor workshop environmental temperature and humidity, ensuring the production environment meets requirements. When equipment alarms, temperature anomalies, gas leakage, environmental exceedances, and other conditions are found, the robot immediately sends alarm information and on-site images to the backend. Operators can confirm the situation through remote images and, when necessary, remotely control the robotic arm to complete simple handling, such as pressing reset buttons, rotating valves, and switching switches, reducing downtime. At the same time, the robot can automatically record inspection data and generate standardized inspection reports, facilitating equipment O&M and management traceability.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + dual-spectrum gimbal camera + infrared thermal imager + gas sensor + temperature and humidity sensor + two-finger gripper + MES system integration
Benchmark case: A large chemical enterprise park inspection project. The Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) covered a 10-square-kilometer inspection area in the park and completed 7*24-hour inspection of production workshops, tank farms, pipeline corridors, distribution rooms, sewage treatment stations, and other full areas. It monitored equipment status, environmental gas concentration, temperature and humidity, and other parameters in real time, cumulatively discovered more than 120 equipment anomaly hazards and more than 30 gas leakage warnings, effectively avoiding multiple safety accidents and saving about 60% of manual inspection costs for the enterprise.
3. Emergency Rescue and Search
In natural disaster and accident scenarios such as earthquakes, fires, collapses, and floods, post-disaster sites have complex terrain and high risk factors, and personnel cannot enter. The Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can replace rescuers to enter dangerous areas and complete tasks such as personnel search and rescue, material transfer, on-site reconnaissance, and communication support. With all-terrain passage capability, the robot can quickly shuttle through post-disaster sites such as ruins, collapsed buildings, and muddy roads, entering high-risk areas inaccessible to humans. It carries a life detector to search for the location of trapped persons and returns on-site images and environmental data in real time, providing data support for rescue plans. It carries a long-distance two-way intercom to build a lifeline between rescuers and trapped persons, enabling real-time understanding of the physical condition and needs of trapped persons. It carries a rescue material box to quickly deliver materials such as drinking water, food, medicine, and first-aid equipment to trapped persons, with a maximum load of up to 80kg, meeting large-batch material transfer needs. At the same time, the robot can carry LiDAR to complete 3D modeling of the post-disaster site and return on-site terrain data in real time, providing precise spatial information support for rescue teams to plan rescue routes and formulate rescue plans. It can carry gas sensors and environmental sensors to monitor toxic and harmful gases, aftershock risks, and environmental parameters at the post-disaster site, ensuring environmental safety at the rescue site.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + life detector + two-way intercom system + rescue material box + gas sensor + 5G communication module
Benchmark case: A provincial fire and rescue brigade's 2025 emergency rescue procurement project. The Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) successfully won the bid and was delivered on schedule. During on-site acceptance, the robot completed multi-scenario drills such as earthquake post-disaster search and rescue, air-raid shelter underground search and rescue, long-distance transport of rescue materials, and two-way intercom, and passed acceptance smoothly. In multiple actual rescue missions, the robot has cumulatively entered high-risk sites more than 20 times and completed tasks such as locating trapped persons, material transfer, and on-site reconnaissance, providing core support for rescue operations and greatly improving rescue efficiency and success rate.
4. Campus O&M Inspection
In outdoor scenarios such as industrial parks, campuses, communities, and scenic areas, the inspection range is wide and points are scattered. Manual inspection has a heavy workload and low efficiency. The Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can achieve autonomous O&M inspection of the entire campus area. The robot can complete scheduled patrols along campus roads, green belts, and public areas. It carries a high-definition camera to inspect perimeter walls, outdoor equipment areas, material stacking areas, fire-fighting facilities, and other areas. At night, it can use a low-light night-vision camera or infrared thermal imager to complete nighttime inspection. When abnormal conditions or safety hazards are found, it takes photos, records them, and immediately alarms. Security personnel can remotely confirm on-site conditions in the control room. At the same time, the robot can carry temperature and humidity sensors, noise sensors, and air quality sensors to monitor campus environmental parameters in real time, providing data support for campus environmental governance. It can carry inspection modules to complete status detection of campus street lights, monitoring equipment, fitness equipment, and public facilities, and promptly alarm when facility damage is found, facilitating timely repair by O&M personnel.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + high-definition zoom camera + infrared thermal imager + low-light night-vision camera + environmental sensors + 4G/5G communication module
Benchmark case: A national-level industrial park O&M project deployed 10 Quadruped Robots (Robotic Dogs), covering a 20-square-kilometer O&M inspection area. They completed tasks such as park perimeter security, public facility inspection, environmental monitoring, and night patrol, realizing full-process unmanned campus O&M. The incidence of campus safety incidents was reduced by 80%, and O&M costs were reduced by 50%, making it a benchmark case for smart park construction.
5. New Energy Station Inspection
In new energy stations such as photovoltaic power stations, wind farms, energy storage stations, and charging stations, equipment is widely distributed, O&M inspection radii are large, and some stations are located in remote areas. Manual inspection is difficult and costly. The Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can replace O&M personnel to complete daily inspection and O&M tasks. For photovoltaic power station scenarios, the robot can carry an infrared thermal imager to comprehensively scan photovoltaic modules and accurately identify anomalies such as hot spots, micro-cracks, and dust shading, providing timely early warning of equipment faults. For wind farm scenarios, the robot can complete inspection of wind turbine towers and bottom equipment, detecting wind turbine operating status, equipment temperature, and oil level conditions. For energy storage station scenarios, the robot can inspect energy storage battery cabins, PCS equipment, transformers, and other equipment, detecting battery temperature, equipment operating status, environmental gas concentration, and other parameters, and timely discover safety hazards such as thermal runaway and gas leakage. For charging station scenarios, the robot can inspect the appearance status of charging piles, display screen information, and charging gun return status. When a charging gun is not returned, the robotic arm assists in returning it, completing daily O&M of charging piles.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + high-definition zoom camera + infrared thermal imager + gas sensor + two-finger gripper + 4G/5G communication module
Benchmark case: A large photovoltaic power station inspection project deployed 20 Quadruped Robots (Robotic Dogs), covering a 50-square-kilometer photovoltaic module area. They completed daily inspection, hot spot detection, and dust monitoring of photovoltaic modules. Inspection efficiency was more than 10 times higher than manual inspection, photovoltaic module fault identification accuracy reached 99%, power generation efficiency was improved by 5% for the station, and O&M costs of more than RMB 10 million were saved each year.
(II) Extended Application Scenarios
1. Warehousing and Logistics Transfer
In scenarios such as e-commerce warehouses, manufacturing raw material warehouses, finished goods warehouses, and cold-chain warehouses, the Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can undertake tasks such as goods shelving and unshelving, picking and handling, inventory counting, and material distribution. With the wheel-legged composite structure, the robot can walk autonomously in the warehouse. Equipped with a robotic arm and suction cup group, it can directly grab goods from floor shelves or high-level shelves without manual climbing or forklift operation, and then autonomously transport them to the sorting area, packing table, or outbound port without manual intervention. In inventory counting operations, the robot can walk along shelf aisles, carry an RFID reader or industrial camera, automatically scan product labels, record inventory quantities and storage locations, and synchronize data to the WMS system in real time, achieving automated and visual inventory management. For cold-chain warehouse scenarios, the robot can undergo low-temperature protection modification, replacing manual work for long periods in a -20℃ cold storage environment, reducing the risk of frostbite, and completing cargo transfer, inventory counting, and environmental monitoring in the cold storage.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + robotic arm (with suction cup or gripper) + multi-layer rack + industrial camera + RFID module + WMS system integration
2. Production Line Material Delivery
In manufacturing workshops such as automotive parts, electronic products, machining, and food processing, workstations on the production line need regular material replenishment, and empty material boxes need to be recovered. The Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can achieve automated and just-in-time delivery of production line materials. The robot can directly grab material boxes from line-side racks or the central warehouse, autonomously transport them to the designated workstation, place the material boxes on the workstation rack, and retrieve the empty boxes. The entire process requires no manual handling, and operators can focus on assembly work. The robot can connect with the MES system and automatically trigger delivery tasks according to the production takt, ensuring timely material delivery and realizing lean management of production line materials. For multi-variety mixed-line production scenarios, the robot can be equipped with multi-layer racks, carry multiple materials at one time, and deliver them sequentially by workstation order, greatly improving delivery efficiency.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + cargo pallet or multi-layer rack + code scanning module + MES system integration
3. Laboratory Automation
In laboratory scenarios such as biopharmaceuticals, chemical testing, university research, and medical testing, repetitive work such as sample pretreatment, reagent dispensing, consumable handling, and sample transfer takes up a large amount of researchers' time. The Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can automate laboratory processes and improve experimental efficiency and data reproducibility. The robot can grab and transfer sample tubes, reagent bottles, and culture dishes between laboratory benches and equipment, reducing opportunities for personnel to contact biological samples and hazardous chemicals and ensuring the safety of laboratory personnel. With a pipetting module, the robotic arm can complete quantitative liquid dispensing, ensuring consistency of each operation and improving the accuracy of experimental data. With a 3D vision camera, it can achieve precise positioning and grabbing of samples and complete tasks such as high-throughput screening and sample library management. At the same time, the robot can connect with the laboratory management system to achieve full-process automated management of experimental processes, greatly improving experimental efficiency.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + robotic arm (with gripper or pipetting module) + 3D vision camera + laboratory management system integration
4. Education and Research
In majors such as automation, robotics engineering, mechatronics, and artificial intelligence at universities, the Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can be used as a teaching experiment platform and research innovation platform, providing core hardware support for robotics-related teaching and research at universities. Students can learn course content such as mobile robot motion control, SLAM navigation algorithms, multi-sensor fusion, robotic arm motion planning, machine vision, and multi-robot collaboration on real hardware. The product provides a complete SDK development kit, ROS interfaces, and API documentation, supporting students in secondary development, algorithm validation, and function customization, meeting teaching needs such as course experiments, graduation projects, and science and technology innovation competitions. Teachers can use the robot to build experimental demonstration systems and visually display automated operation processes, multi-robot collaborative operations, and full-scenario intelligent inspection in class, improving teaching effects. At the same time, the robot can serve as a research platform for university research teams, supporting researchers in scientific research in fields such as robot algorithms, artificial intelligence, multi-robot collaboration, and industrial automation, accelerating the translation of research results.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + robotic arm (with dexterous hand or gripper) + SDK development kit + ROS interfaces
5. Cultural Tourism Guide
In cultural tourism venues such as museums, science and technology museums, scenic areas, and exhibition halls, the Quadruped Robot (Robotic Dog) can provide services such as self-service audio guide, visitor reception, exhibit explanation, and interactive demonstration, improving tourists' tour experience. The robot can dynamically plan guide routes according to tourist locations, automatically identify tourists' language preferences for multilingual explanations, and carry a touch display screen to show virtual models of attractions, cultural relic introductions, crowd heat information, and other content. Combined with digital twin technology, tourists can view virtual restoration scenes, historical changes, and other content through the robot screen, enhancing the fun of the tour. At the same time, the robot can cooperate with story-based tasks such as treasure hunt quizzes and interactive check-ins to enhance tourists' sense of participation, becoming an intelligent guide steward in cultural tourism venues.
Recommended configuration: wheel-legged composite chassis + touch display screen + voice interaction module + multilingual support + robotic arm (for interactive demonstration)