带着机器人Gita购物 从此解放你的手

    The firm that makes Vespa scooter has unveiled a new two-wheeled vehicle but this model isn’t designed to transport humans.

    Made by the Italian firm’s Boston Fast Forward R&D* lab, Gita is a robot cargo carrier capable of hauling up to 18 kg of goods while following a human operator or moving autonomously* through a mapped environment. The blue ball-like machine stands about 66-cm tall.

    The firm wants to help people walk, run, pedal and skate through life with the assistance of a family of vehicles like Gita.

    The robot is designed to learn and navigate using both oversight and decision-making of humans.

    Users simply unlock the top lid and place anything from groceries to laundry inside of the machine.

    It links to a unique white belt that is equipped with a camera on the front and uses technology known as simultaneous localization and mapping*, which creates a 3D point cloud map while the human operator walks.

    And the robot is designed to recognize its owner as it moves through the map using the front-face* camera attached to the belt.

    Once it has traveled through the environment, it is able to refer back to that specific map — allowing it to take the journey autonomously.

    Users can also establish way points in the map which Gita will stop at, while it travels on its own and uses cameras and an ultrasonic* range-finding* system to avoid obstacles in its way. And with just a three-hour charge, the robot can roll around for eight hours at walking speed.(SD-Agencies)