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Saturday, February 04, 2017
 
Piaggio's Cargo Robot Uses Visual SLAM to Follow You Anywhere
Piaggio's Cargo Robot Uses Visual SLAM to Follow You Anywhere
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Gita can carry 19 kilograms of cargo and move at up to 35 kilometers per hour, which will allow it to follow a person walking, jogging, or riding a bicycle.

Gita’s primary navigation system is a pair of stereoscopic cameras mounted on the robot, with which it’s constantly performing visual SLAM. It then compares its SLAM picture with SLAM that the user is doing, thanks to a stereoscopic camera on the user’s belt
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Marble will not yet say exactly how its robots adapt themselves from the fast-paced streets of Manhattan to the laid-back hills of San Francisco—possibly because the Bay Area’s pavements are filling rapidly with aspiring rivals. Dispatch, also in San Francisco, is testing tricycle “Carry” robots, which look a bit like beer-cooling picnic boxes on wheels, on two Californian university campuses. And, down the road in Palo Alto, another newly started firm, Robby, is also working on a delivery ’bot.
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/piaggio-cargo-robot
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/piaggio-cargo-robot

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