The First Metamorphic Robot.

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In Shandong, southern China, passengers cross the corridors of the One Shanghai station, while they are watched by something that until recently belonged to science fiction, the GoMate, the GoMate is a metamorphic humanoid from GAC Motors, it is not there to entertain, it is there to monitor, guide and react.

At first glance, GoMate seems like just another service robot, but just seeing it move to perceive that there is something different, its structure combines variable wheels and legs, allowing it to alternate between modes of locomotion as the environment changes, in long, clear corridors it rises on two wheels, reaches up to 1.75 cm in height and moves through the tunnels at 4.2 m/s faster than an intense human race.

Already in the middle of the crowd, it lowers the center of gravity, activates the four-wheel mode and gains stability to safely navigate between real people in real time, with 27 degrees of freedom and a load capacity of 20 kg, it is not only agile, it is functional, because it can assist passengers, transport equipment and physically interact with the urban environment, but what really transforms the GoMate into something new is not its mobility, it is time, GAC Motors designed the robot to act as a rapid response agent.

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In abnormal situations, it executes a complete protocol in less than 10 seconds, alerts authorities, identifies the location with extreme precision and initiates a live video feed directly to the command center, all supported by computer vision, autonomous navigation, intelligent obstacle avoidance and even immersive teleoperation, where a human operator can literally see through the robot's eyes using virtual reality.

It is continuous vigilance, without fatigue, and autonomy is not only cognitive, it is energetic. While many robots still suffer with short shifts, the GoMate operates for up to 8 hours at a time, when the battery gets low, it doesn't stop waiting for help, it moves itself to a charging station, recovers power in about an hour and gets back to work. In critical operations it supports hot swapping of the battery, reducing downtime to seconds.

The above means an almost uninterrupted robotic presence in public space, the subway is just the beginning, airports, terminals, high-circulation urban spaces are on the horizon. Gomate does not just represent a robot patrolling a station, it symbolizes something greater, the normalization of the humanoid in daily Chinese life.

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