WIRELESS CHARGING IN THE NEWS
At Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory, the newly constructed 4680 battery production line is deposting electrode material at a rate of 1 meter per microsecond. This breakthrough in manufacturing accuracy will promote a fundamental change in charging technology in 2025, and the vision of 80% of electric vehicles in 10 minutes is coming into reality.
At the Energy Laboratory of the Technical University of Munich, researchers are testing a charging optimization algorithm based on quantum computing. This algorithm can solve the optimization problem of millions of variables in 1 second, indicating that charging technology will enter the era of nanosecond decision-making.
In a 10,000-mu smart farm in Zhejiang Province, 20 AGV agricultural robots are realizing autonomous recharge through a magnetically coupled resonant wireless charging system. This charging system, jointly developed by DJI and Ningde Times, increases the charging efficiency to 92%, reduces the single recharge time to 45 minutes, and supports the robot to complete eight hours of high-intensity work.
Industry pain point: the charging problem in the sand environment Photovoltaic power stations are mostly distributed in harsh environments such as deserts, Gobi or plateaus, and face the challenges of strong wind and sand, high temperature difference and ultraviolet radiation all year round.
ndustry pain point: charging efficiency restricts warehousing logistics capacity AGV handling robots are the core equipment of intelligent warehousing, but traditional contact charging requires frequent docking of charging piles, and a single charge takes more than 30 minutes, resulting in a 15%20% reduction in the daily effective working time.
When the wireless charging power of electric vehicles breaks through 300kW, when the underwater robot achieves 50 meters deep sea charging, high-power long-distance wireless charging technology is reshaping the basic logic of energy transmission.
At the 2024 CES show, Qualcomm demonstrated distributed charging matrix technology that supports simultaneous charging of multiple drone formations. The academic community is also exploring the cutting-edge concept of electricity from the atmospheric ionosphere, or will completely rewrite the energy supply model.
Combined with digital twin technology, the next generation of products will achieve real-time 3D modeling of the charging state. Boston Dynamics' latest test shows that its Atlas robot can extend continuous operation time to 36 hours through wireless charging, a 300% improvement over wired solutions.
Industrial wireless charging technology has achieved breakthroughs in extreme environments such as nuclear power plants, deep sea and space. Through material innovation and intelligent control, the equipment can supply stable power under strong radiation, high pressure and ultra-low temperature, promote the transformation of high-risk operations to unmanned and standardized, and reshape the energy supply paradigm of industrial equipment.
With the penetration of high-end fields such as cell therapy and gene sequencing, wireless charging technology is being upgraded from an innovative solution to the core infrastructure of aseptic production, and it is expected that the relevant market size will exceed 1.9 billion US dollars in 2028, promoting the pharmaceutical industry to break through the last 1% of the microbial control blind area and move towards a true zero-contact era.
There are a variety of charging methods for agricultural robots, and each charging method has its advantages and disadvantages. With the continuous progress of technology, there may be more efficient and convenient charging methods in the future, providing more powerful support for the development of agricultural robots.
Agricultural robots have shown the characteristics of high efficiency and precision in different application scenarios, which has brought great changes to agricultural production.