en.Wedoany.com Reported - A team led by French engineer Pablo modified Unitree's G1 humanoid robot and successfully summited Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo to test its mobility in extreme environments. The robot, named Pemba, completed the ascent during a 16-hour expedition. Chimborazo stands at 20,564 feet, with a vertical drop from base to summit greater than that of Denali, the world's highest peak.

The robot walked autonomously only on slopes with gradients less than 30 degrees; for the rest of the route, it was carried by the support team. The project team equipped it with custom boots and a tailored heated jacket to handle icy terrain and protect electronic components from low temperatures. The team has announced the next step: climbing Hawaii's Mauna Kea before taking on Mount Everest.

This initiative, named "Pemba," is not a publicity stunt. Its primary goal is to provide conservationists with tools for monitoring remote environments, such as the Amazon rainforest. The climbing experiment is used to verify the durability and mobility of humanoid robots in extreme conditions. Chimborazo, located near the equator, has a summit that is technically farther from the Earth's center than Everest, making it suitable for testing robot performance under different gravity and low atmospheric pressure.

Humanoid robots are penetrating various industries. China Post's humanoid robot can already sort 1,200 packages per hour, demonstrating application potential in logistics. Meanwhile, analysts predict that humanoid robots will dominate the world by 2035. In Indonesia, the humanoid robot Agibot has entered the market, indicating that the technology is approaching the consumer sector.

The Pablo team will use data collected during the Chimborazo climb to improve Pemba's autonomous navigation capabilities, battery life, and thermal protection system. Each subsequent climb will move closer to the vision of humanoid robots operating autonomously in Earth's most extreme environments.

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