TangPa - Robot Details, Use Case and Specifications

TangPa

TangPa TP-01 by CHRIC is an 850 mm bipedal service robot with 16 DoF, R-PAN autonomous outdoor nav, 19-inch display, and fleet sync for tourism, retail, and live event deployments.

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Chengdu Humanoid Robot Innovation Center Co., Ltd.

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Closed Source

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R-PAN proprietary autonomous outdoor navigation system. In-house fleet formation and synchronized choreography control platform.

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Robot Brief

TangPa, model designation TP-01, is a culturally themed bipedal humanoid service robot developed by the Chengdu Humanoid Robot Innovation Center Co., Ltd. (CHRIC). Designed for high-traffic commercial and public environments including cultural tourism destinations, retail spaces, shopping malls, and large-scale public events, TangPa combines expressive interaction with autonomous outdoor navigation via the proprietary R-PAN navigation system. Standing 850 mm tall and weighing 34 kg with its quick-swap battery, TangPa features 16 degrees of freedom including a patented 6-DoF neck structure, a 19-inch ultra-bright touchscreen, multimodal emotion sensing, and a fleet control system enabling synchronised multi-unit parade formations. It is available in two configurations: the Standard edition for commercial deployment and the EDU Development Edition for research and secondary development.

Use Cases

Autonomous Outdoor Navigation:
Equipped with the R-PAN navigation system, TangPa performs fully autonomous navigation in dynamic open outdoor environments, detecting and avoiding sudden obstacles, moving pedestrians, and suspended hazards in real time while replanning routes and maintaining smooth movement without human remote control.
Synchronised Multi-Unit Dance and Parade Performances:
Executes coordinated choreography and parade formations across fleets of multiple units via a centralised fleet control dashboard, supporting events such as sports galas, brand activations, and cultural parades with strict synchronisation and dynamic formation changes.
Advertising and Content Delivery:
Displays promotional videos, advertisements, QR codes, coupons, and location-targeted content on its 19-inch screen while simultaneously performing, greeting, or patrolling, using a backend content management system with foot-traffic-based placement optimisation.
Visitor Greeting and Reception:
Uses a multimodal proactive greeting engine to recognise approaching visitors by posture, facial expression, and voice, selecting and delivering personalised welcome messages without human intervention.
Multilingual Visitor Interaction and Wayfinding:
Supports natural language queries in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, and common Chinese dialects via an onboard neural machine translation engine, generating optimal routes and rendering navigation animations on its display screen.
Companionship and Emotion-Responsive Interaction:
Engages visitors with gesture-based games, Q&A, storytelling, and emotional soothing, adjusting its interaction style in real time based on emotion recognition algorithms that detect excitement, curiosity, or irritation.
Safety Monitoring and Patrol:
Operates autonomously 24/7 as a mobile surveillance and safety monitoring unit, detecting crowd gatherings, smoke, and fire using HD cameras and AI risk recognition algorithms, with real-time alerts to administrators.
Precision Marketing and Social Engagement:
Dynamically generates QR codes, coupons, and mini-programme links via voice and screen animations, with backend conversion funnel analytics for retail and brand promotion deployments.

Industries

Cultural Tourism:
Deployed at scenic areas, tourism destinations, and cultural heritage sites as an autonomous guide, greeter, and interactive ambassador that reduces dependence on human front-line staff while enhancing visitor experience.
Retail and Commercial:
Functions as a mobile marketing and service robot in shopping malls, CBD retail districts, and branded flagship stores, combining targeted advertising delivery with proactive customer engagement.
Entertainment and Live Events:
Performs as a choreographed entertainment unit at concerts, galas, sporting events, and large-scale public ceremonies, supporting multi-unit synchronised performances and parade formations.
Hospitality:
Provides reception, wayfinding, and companion interaction in hotels, exhibition centres, conference venues, and transportation hubs.
Education and Research:
The EDU Development Edition supports secondary development, custom algorithm integration, and robotics research via open accessory expansion interfaces.
Advertising:
It features an ultra-high-definition display and an intelligent content distribution system. While performing, parading, or greeting visitors, it can simultaneously display ads, promotional videos, and special offers

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Intro

TangPa, also known as TP-01, stands 850 mm tall and weighs 34 kg with its quick-swap battery installed, making it a compact, crowd-friendly bipedal platform sized for interaction in high-density public spaces rather than large-scale industrial use. Its 16 active degrees of freedom include a patented 6-DoF neck structure, which CHRIC describes as a world-first configuration enabling the full range of human head motions including nodding, tilting, side-to-side rotation, and panoramic scanning. This neck articulation, combined with an expressive face-driving engine rendered on its 19-inch ultra-bright industrial-grade touchscreen, is central to TangPa's HRI philosophy of creating humanlike expressiveness that registers as natural to human observers in close public interaction. The body shell is available in multiple customisable panel colours and themed configurations, with a 3-second hot-swap panel replacement system enabling quick visual rebranding for different events or IP partnerships. The modular panel design supports flexible cultural theming without hardware changes.

TangPa's primary navigation system is the proprietary R-PAN platform, which enables fully autonomous operation in highly dynamic outdoor environments without human remote control. R-PAN performs real-time hazard detection, path replanning around suddenly appearing obstacles and moving pedestrians, and handles complex suspended objects that fixed-path systems cannot address. This capability allows TangPa to operate in live public spaces including scenic areas, shopping malls, exhibition halls, sports venues, and transportation hubs without a dedicated operator on the floor. For fleet operations, an in-house multi-unit coordination system manages synchronised formation control, route execution, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and formation transitions across multiple TangPa units simultaneously from a single management dashboard. The communication stack supporting fleet operation and remote content management uses 4G, Bluetooth, and WiFi. Battery runtime ranges from 2 to 3 hours per charge, with quick-swap battery replacement supported to minimize downtime during extended deployments.

Connectivity

WiFi Supported
Bluetooths upported for short-range device communication and fleet coordination
Remote Controller: Included in the standard configuration

Capabilities

R-PAN Autonomous Outdoor Navigation:
Proprietary navigation system enabling real-time autonomous operation in dynamic, unstructured public outdoor environments, with live obstacle detection, path replanning, and hazard avoidance without requiring human remote control.
6-DoF Patented Neck Structure:
A world-first 6-DoF neck mechanism enables the full human head motion range including nodding, tilting, panoramic rotation, and expressive micro-movements, driving natural-feeling face-to-face interaction with visitors.
Fleet Formation and Synchronized Choreography:
In-house multi-unit control system manages parade formations, synchronized dance sequences, and remote batch commands across multiple TangPa units from a single dashboard, with route map upload and autonomous formation execution.
Multimodal Emotion Sensing and Proactive Greeting:
Integrates facial capture, voice recognition, and posture analysis to detect visitor emotional states in real time, triggering personalised greeting responses and adapting interaction style dynamically without human instruction.
19-Inch Industrial Display with Content Management:
Ultra-bright touchscreen supports simultaneous advertising, promotional content, QR code generation, navigation animations, and interactive displays, with backend targeted content delivery based on real-time location and audience foot traffic data.
Multilingual Neural Machine Translation:
Onboard multilingual engine supports over eight major languages plus common Chinese dialects, with a cross-cultural etiquette engine for culturally appropriate response generation across international visitor interactions.
Modular Panel and IP Customisation:
3-second panel swap system enables instant visual rebranding between themed configurations, supporting event-specific or partner IP customisation without hardware modification.
EDU Secondary Development (EDU Edition):
The EDU Development Edition exposes accessory expansion interfaces and secondary development tools for researchers and developers to build custom applications, algorithms, and hardware add-ons.