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The Robot on a Mission to Eliminate Short Car Trips
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2022
- Americans make about four trips a day, and 35% of them are less than two miles. That’s where the Gita “follow” bot comes in. This 28-lb two-wheeled service robot is on a mission to eliminate short car trips. But it's progress has been slow. Bloomberg's Kyle Stock explains.
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The Gita “follow” robot aims to replace driving for Americans’ quickest daily errands. But progress has been slow.
When my six-year-old son first “woke up” the Gitamini robot, I was surprised he didn’t flinch - robots these days tend to be ominous. But as November leaves swirled around the sidewalk meet-cute, the squat personal droid gave a friendly “chirp” and popped up on its two large wheels, ready to follow a new friend.
The three of us were walking to a bookstore across Princeton University’s campus, and I charged my son with loading up the robot. Pokemon cards, snacks and non-negotiable stuffed animals were crammed into the Gitamini’s hollow center cavity. As we set off, with the cream-colored droid following about six feet behind, my son glanced back to monitor Gitamini’s loyalty, occasionally prodding it with a “C’mon.” An hour later, the snacks and stuffed animals had company: a handful of new books and a pile of leaves deemed too beautiful to leave behind.
Service robots are now an $11 billion industry, according to the International Federation of Robotics, with nearly 200 new fleets launched during the pandemic. Most of those bots are in hospitals - assisting in surgery, for example - and many can be found trundling around warehouses and factories. But Gitamini wasn’t designed to pack boxes, pick oranges or strip minerals from treacherous mines. It has a more straightforward mission: to forestall short car trips. Americans make nearly four such trips per day on average, according to government statistics, and 35% of them are less than two miles.
Gita - Italian for “trip” - hopes to be a 28-pound solution to a 5,000-pound problem. “These trips are totally walkable, but nobody’s walking two miles with a bag of dog food,” says Greg Lynn, chief executive officer of Gitamini-maker Piaggio Fast Forward. “We definitely want to be part of the ecosystem where you don’t have to take a two-ton thing to carry two bags of stuff.”
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"indirectly it's good for the planet" - what?
because it's like a backpack but with a lithium ion accumulator and you have to recharge it and the underground has to be flat as a road.
Let's invent some stuff to get rid of all this lithium - really guys we have too much of this element...
*irony off* 🙄
While I respect the perspective on traditional solutions like hand carts, I believe the Gita robot represents an evolution in personal convenience technology. It’s not just about transporting items; it’s about integrating smart assistance into our daily lives. The Gita is designed to help those who may face challenges with mobility, whether due to age, disability, or other reasons, allowing them to maintain independence and freeing them from the physical burden of carrying loads.
Moreover, the Gita encourages walkability by making it more feasible for people to transport their groceries or other goods on foot, which can indeed reduce car dependency. It’s a step towards more sustainable urban living by supporting the choice to walk rather than drive.The critique also touches upon a larger issue of urban design and the need for infrastructure improvement. While the Gita is not a fix-all solution, it’s an aid that fits within the larger context of making our cities more livable. It’s a glimpse into a future where personal robotics play a part in our shift towards more eco-friendly and health-conscious lifestyles.Ultimately, the Gita isn’t just a piece of technology; it’s a gateway to greater personal freedom and a complement to the development of more walkable, connected communities
Could be useful for the mailman.
This is ridiculous. Large capacity hand carts (the metal crate or cloth bag types) are already available online for less than $50 dollars. This technology is wasteful and proves that America lacks of education on urbanism. In a walkable town or city, the short trip problem is nonexistent, and in a non-walkable city, you HAVE TO use your car; this makes a "haulbot" an unnecessary in all cases.
This can MAYBE help the elderly or disabled in a walkable, disability accessible area if the person wants to be independent. But the answer to eliminate car trips for the majority of Americans is to build dense, walkable and bikeable towns and cities AND to eliminate food deserts. This means you are given the option to walk. This has been proven time and time again in converted ("fixed") American and European cities. They always prosper economically afterwards.
We keep trying to reinvent the wheel in America just to avoid the painful truth that we destroyed great city centers and built monuments to cars (car-centric suburban developments). These areas are hard to maintain and eat away our a huge amount of infrastructure subsidies. Instead of using our resources make unusable tech, we should MUST use them try to fix our country.
So like I’d be on board maybe but you’re using this as reason to blame America for a lot of issues under the assumption that we created this technology. This was invented and manufactured by Italians hoping to bank off of America and this video he says it’s not really working and Americans aren’t buying so that kinda contradicts a lot of what you said. As he said in the video it’s made by the people who made Vespa which is a subsidiary of Piaggio which are both Italian corporations. American does have a lot of issues to fix and focus on its true.