Robots and AI have become highlights of CES year after year, showcasing immense potential for innovation and application. Yet, despite impressive progress, current robots address only a fraction of industry needs. To truly integrate into everyday life and serve more industries, robots must overcome challenges in adaptability and cost.
As global demand for robots grows and breakthroughs in core robotics technology continue, a new wave of products and solutions is emerging—focused on adaptability, safe interaction, and cost efficiency. At CES 2025, groundbreaking technologies like general-purpose soft robotics will reveal new pathways for large-scale robot adoption.
Today, robots have evolved from science fiction into reality, reshaping production and lifestyles with their diverse forms and functionalities. In hazardous and labor-intensive environments, robotic technology not only boosts efficiency but also reduces risks and liberates humans from dangerous tasks.
In industries like 3C and automotive manufacturing, robots excel at repetitive tasks like assembly and inspection. In high-risk scenarios, such as power station maintenance or disaster rescue, they handle extreme conditions with precision and durability. On construction sites, robots like floor-leveling and wall-polishing machines enhance safety and reduce worker strain. Meanwhile, household robots, like robotic vacuums, are transforming home maintenance with ease and efficiency.
Despite significant achievements in niche fields, scaling robotic applications across industries remains constrained by challenges in adaptability and cost. Faced with the demands for high adaptability and low cost, “soft” robotics—hailed as the next-generation foundational technology for robotics—offers revolutionary advantages over traditional "rigid" robots, which rely on motor-driven joints, metal components, complex sensors, and precision manufacturing. Through innovations in fluid-driven systems and material science, soft robotics delivers lightweight, flexible, safe, and easily deformable designs, making them uniquely suited for dynamic, interaction-intensive environments involving humans and complex surroundings. This breakthrough paves the way for large-scale robotic applications across diverse scenarios. However, limitations in payload capacity and control precision have slowed commercialization, with applications often confined to academic research or specialized sectors like healthcare and manufacturing.
Addressing these challenges, Wisson Robotics has developed Pliabot®, a groundbreaking general-purpose soft robotics technology. This innovation accelerates soft robotics' commercial viability and universal application, paving a practical path for large-scale adoption.
Derived from advancements in soft robotics, Pliabot® technology equips robots with unique capabilities and advantages, summarized as “Emulate Human Muscles, Transcend Human Capabilities”. Utilizing soft bionic muscles and neuronic intelligence, it replicates characteristics of human muscle’s pliability while retaining soft robotics' advantages of adaptability and low cost. It has also expanded the operational boundaries of robotics, offering superior endurance and flexibility compared to human capabilities.
Like the human nervous system, Pliabot® integrates "neural intelligence" within its Pliabot® muscles, connecting seamlessly with "cerebellar", "cerebral", and cloud-based AI. This system enables precise control without reliance on complex force sensors or vision systems, combining multi-modal embodied intelligence with robust scene data processing. Meanwhile, by building a modular development platform to reuse standard modules for versatile configurations, Pliabot® joints, arms and systems are compatible with drones, mobile platforms, assembly lines, humanoid robots and more. This flexibility meets the practical and scalable needs of industries like aerial operations, EV, renewable energy, manufacturing, and home services.
Wisson’s Pliabot® robots are already transforming industries such as facade cleaning, autonomous charging, energy maintenance, emergency rescue, and environmental protection, freeing humans from harsh environments or repetitive tasks, accelerating the arrival of the robot era.
Flagship solutions like the AP3-P3 Pliabot® tethered cleaning system boost efficiency while eliminating safety risks for high-altitude workers. The AP30-N1 Pliabot® aerial manipulator redefines drone capabilities, enabling tasks like heavy-load aerial grasping and transfer, precise cross-terrain deployment across land, water and air, as well as accurate sampling of gases, liquids, and solids. Meanwhile, the Pliabot® automatic charging robot offers unprecedented performance and cost advantages, accelerating commercialization and driving progress in the EV autonomous driving.
As a global leader in general-purpose soft robotics, Wisson has expanded its Pliabot® solutions to over 100 countries, regions and cities across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. At CES 2025, Wisson will showcase Pliabot®'s capabilities alongside its recent applications, aiming to strengthen its global brand presence, expand in international markets and collaborate with more partners to explore new and innovative applications of soft robotics, accelerating the arrival of a new era of robotics.
