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Hitachi's 'Intelligent Carry' Bot Makes Autonomous Deliveries

by Caleb Johnson on September 24, 2010 at 08:20 AM

Hitachi Intelligent bot
We love bots of all shapes and sizes, but many of them just don't have practical applications for our daily life. But Hitachi's "Intelligent Carry" bot is a wonderful exception. It autonomously transports up to 2,200-pounds of stuff from one place to the other -- plain and simple. According to Popular Science, the bot navigates its environment using an algorithm dubbed SLAM (or Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). As the box-shaped bot rolls around about 4-mph, a precision laser maps the surroundings so it doesn't bump into anything or anybody. Right now, the "Intelligent Carry" bot only works within a 100-foot radius. We'd love to have an "Intelligent Carry" wheeling around our workspace. If nothing else, it'd cut down on all those trips we make to the coffee maker and vending machines.

Tags: hitachi, intelligent carry, IntelligentCarry, robot, Robots, slam, top, transportation

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