German robot carmaker hopes to revolutionise airports, trash collection and people movement

Record ID: 1743640

  • Title: German robot carmaker hopes to revolutionise airports, trash collection and people movement
  • Date: 29th September 2023
  • Summary: FULDA, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 25, 2023) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ROBOT VEHICLE “CITYBOT” DRIVING ON GERMAN COMPANY EDAG’S PREMISES (SOUNDBITE) (German) EDAG CONCEPT & PRODUCT OWNER, JOHANNES BRACKMANN, SAYING: “Our plan is to begin to qualify and install the system step by step, for example at airports with regulated spaces where we are not under pressure with module systems or in cities in limited areas such as the Superblocks in Barcelona. That would allow us to collect more and more data in order to qualify the Citybot’s software and hardware.”
  • Embargoed: 13th October 2023 10:20
  • Keywords: Citybot German made airport car fully automated module system robot vehicle
  • Location: FULDA, GERMANY
  • City: FULDA, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Europe,Information Technologies / Computer Sciences,Science
  • Reuters ID: LVA001575329092023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Autonomous, multifunctional und emissions free: the German makers of the ‘Citybot’ plan to operate their robot car day and night to help local communities with rubbish collection, tree watering, lawn mowing and one day also at airports as “apron control.”
    Engineering company EDAG based in Fulda north of Frankfurt says it aims to collect more data so that its Citybot is put to use around the clock.
    “There is a large number of modules available which at the end of the day make the concept profitable and efficient,” EDAG concept and product owner Johannes Brackmann told Reuters Television.
    Powered by electricity or hydrogen, the Citybot’s makers’ goal is to operate the vehicle equipped with sensors autonomously and highly automated in a digitalised city environment.
    Artificial intelligence and machine learning enable the Citybot to recognise and differentiate objects and also to separate them, such as garbage.
    The company’s next step is to deploy Citybots to airports to guide planes on the tarmac and to handle luggage.
    Before this happens, Citybots will be tested in a real life situation at Frankfurt’s soccer stadium.
    (Production: Timm Reichert, Tilman Blasshofer, Michele Sani)
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