Company targets ‘walkable’ Seattle with robot that carries your stuff – but is $3k price tag a heavy lift?
April 19, 2021 at 1:19 pm
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Watch your back, Seattle. The robots are hoping to follow you.
Boston-based Piaggio Fast Forward is targeting the Evergreen City as a particularly walkable and tech-savvy place where they hope residents will take to a rolling robot named Gita that’s kind of a like a shadow that carries your stuff. But at $3,250, the price alone could be a heavy lift.
Dive Brief:
Software firms Trimble and Piaggio Fast Forward a subsidiary of Italian vehicle manufacturer Piaggio Group have announced a concept for a new tech solution enabling robots to follow humans and other machines in construction and industrial applications.
The team has developed a patent-pending prototype module, showcased on Boston Dynamics Spot the robot dog, that enables the robot to follow a human autonomously through a construction jobsite.
Once the robot has walked the route, it can repeat routes and adapt to changes in the environment without being guided by a human using a joystick. Multiple robots can also follow one human at a time.
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