Do robots impress you? Are you exited with the electric or autonomous cars? And what would you say if someone combined these three?
Guess what, Volkswagen is already doing it! Volkswagen announced expansion of their partnership with Kuka, a world’s leading automation supplier, to research the prospects of the servicing robotics in the market of autonomous and electric cars.
“In the future, robots will be servicing people in their daily needs,” states Till Reuters, CEO of Kuka. “And the everyday life will be weird without autonomous driving. We will unite our efforts to create innovative concepts that can shape this future.”
The two companies have already launched their joint E-Smart Connect project that is aimed to design a new service robot for autos. Its task will be to connect your electric car to a rechargeable battery. All you need will be to park your car in a certain space for the robot to take care of the rest. This is not probable to annually save thousands of man-hours, but it can be a start of it.
Kuka and Volkswagen are also investigating other options to ampler service autonomous cars.