Remove All-Electric Remove Available Today Remove Tribute
article thumbnail

This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)

Cars That Think

If you go back far enough, a bunch of the initial funding for quadrupedal robots that enabled the commercial platforms that are available today was tied into the idea of robotic pack animals. It’s essentially a customized ANYmal, using unique high-efficiency electric actuators rather than hydraulics.

Boston 145
article thumbnail

Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

There are proponents of each method and, though all three could be used, it is possible that one or more might never make it in the real world or that another method might come to the fore. Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts.