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Trials begin in Surrey for making contactless deliveries from local businesses to suburban homes
successful initial testing phase of the Kar-go pod along fixed routes in London has led to autonomous vehicle company, Academy of Robotics, extending its test to the next phase serving residential
addresses in Surrey. The distinctive looking Kar-go is an electric vehicle, which was designed by the Academy of Robotics to reduce the cost of ‘last-mile’ deliveries and cut harmful emissions. Its operating system has been designed to navigate unmarked roads outside city centres so it can make deliveries not just in urban environments, but also in more rural and suburban areas. Founded as a start-up out of the University of
Aberystwyth in Wales by William Sachiti, the company pulled together the expertise of autonomous motoring algorithm specialists and vehicle manufacturer, Pilgrim Motorsport to package the Kar-Go pod. Following years of data gathering and testing with a combination of simulators and live technology trials in real-world environments, the team focused on the complex arrival and departure aspects such as where the vehicle can pull up and park. The result is a vehicle that uses route information
taken from route-learning vehicles along with cameras, sensors and sophisticated artificial
❱❱ William Sachiti, CEO and Founder of Academy of Robotics, believes the Kar-Go is driving green innovation, promoting a clean transport future and helping the economy, above; the Kar-Go pod, below, is bringing autonomy to the streets of suburban Surrey
intelligence (AI) to navigate autonomously to pre- arranged destinations. Academy of Robotics made medical products the
focus of Kar-go’s first deliveries in a proposal that was awarded funding from UK Research and Innovation to conduct trials in Hounslow during 2020. The trials involved the Kar-go delivery bot collecting medicines from pharmacies and delivering them to care homes and residential addresses.
18 /// Testing & Test Houses /// March 2021
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