Well, we can stop speculating about what Savioke has been working on, because it’s the robot in the picture above: SaviOne is a delivery robot that’s operating as we speak at a hotel in Silicon Valley. It’s designed to provide door-to-door delivery of whatever you desire (and can fit in its cargo bin), and it drives around autonomously while emitting adorable R2-D2-ish beeps.
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SaviOne is, in essence, a very fancy TurtleBot with a bin on it. It’s an autonomous wheeled platform that has enough sensors to let it navigate in (we’re guessing pre-mapped) semi-constrained environments. According to an article in the New York Times, a SaviOne operating at an Aloft hotel in Cupertino, Calif., can interface with the elevator and telephone systems (the hotel named their robot “A.L.O.”)…. [Read more]
