Self-driving pods to offer mobility autonomy at Vancouver International Airport

Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is teaming up pinch a B.C. institution to unveil a aviator programme it says is nan early of getting astir an airport.

YVR is partnering pinch A&K Robotics, which is simply a institution founded by 3 University of British Columbia graduates, to present new, self-driving pods to thief group pinch mobility issues.

The rider uses a touchscreen to show nan pod wherever they want to spell and nan pod uses AI and aggregate sensors to navigate engaged spaces.

“What we person done is placed these sensors to springiness our robot a 360-degree position of its environment, pinch aggregate layers of redundancy,” Jessica Yip pinch A&K Robotics told Global News.

“So erstwhile nan robot is moving, erstwhile it is successful motion, it’s gathering accusation from each of these sensors, and it is utilizing it to find wherever it is, really adjacent aliases acold different objects are.”

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Yip said nan pod will slow down and set its velocity and position successful guidance to what it happening successful nan environment.

YVR said it plans to put 10 of nan mobility pods successful nan airport.