These robots will go there independently with your car off

Posted on 28-04-2015 at 19:54 by Dizono – 25 Comments”

It will be happening to you: sign there is a bomb alert, is your car right in front of the suspicious package. Now do the EOD you will in any case not to ask your car a little further away.

Unfortunately, bommeldingen a serious threat. Usually, forgotten backpacks, with the permission of the NS to hang cameras or testauto’s of BMW, but the situation is in all cases taken seriously. Sometimes it is the suspected bomb hidden in a car or block a car towards the suspect package. Previously, it was wegkrijgen of such a car is a pretty risky job, thanks to smart robots is that now a piece of cake.

Various companies under the name of the project AVERT (Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool) and supported with a big bag of money from Brussels two flat robots are developed under your car. Then split them in half, they lift your car a bit and drive him to the side, so that the robot to which the packet should examine fairly his work can do. The machines do listen to commands, but can the task of largely independently run.

Now it is of course only have to wait on an affordable civilian version. Drones were also previously restricted to the military and other government agencies, while they now for three tens at the Bart Smit or Action scores. That the development is soon going to be evident from the fact how much smaller these robots are than the valetrobot that we had previously over saw. Is of course the question of how long this kind of robots is still required as soon every car is autonomous. Then you need only to hack to get him somewhere else to park. Hey dude, where’s my car?

Gallery: AVERT Robots

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