The Billion-Dollar Battlefield in Robot Joints: How Domestic Lead Screws Break Through Foreign Monopoly?
Introduction When the video of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus walking flexibly went viral online, few noticed that its joints concealed a “bottleneck” technology — planetary roller screw. This precision component, priced at tens of thousands of yuan, accounts for 15%-25% of the robot’s cost, yet has long been monopolized by foreign giants like Germany’s Schaeffler. … Read more