Robot Shuttle $18 Billion Market Attracts Diversity, IDTechEx Reports - Seite 2

They are backed by giants like Toyota and Baidu to startups, one having raised $1 billion. Trials mainly explore new people applications, often free-of-charge, from empowering the poor and disabled, inner circulators or viably filling in gaps in the transportation network and replacing very underutilised vehicles such as school buses and private cars.

Local Motors

Local Motors has recently received $15 million from Future Creation Fund II in Japan for its 80% 3D-printed Olli robot shuttle project trialing worldwide. Its new partner, Florida's Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) provider BEEP, plans to deploy hundreds. Olli 2.0 has 160 km range, speed of up to 40 km/h. Its Protean in-wheel motors improve safety, performance and space. Perhaps it will fit Protean 360 degree motor-wheels next – like castors on a trolley. See the IDTechEx report, "Electric Motors for Electric Vehicles: Land, Water, Air 2020-2030".

Einride and Streat are subsets

Swedish "Einride Pods" are remotely-controlled electric trucks with no driver's cab. Lee Sungwook has recently drawn a concept food truck "Streat" like a windowless robot shuttle. This autonomous, pre-fab food-truck would be customized based on the restaurant running within it and rented out at low cost, he suggests.

Pollution drives fewer, not just cleaner vehicles

Air pollution is now the world's fourth killer (State of Global Air Report late 2020) - 4.5 million deaths from outdoor air pollution in 2019. Over 90% of the global population lives in areas where fine particulate matter levels do not meet the World Health Organization guidelines. Since even "zero-emission" vehicles emit these particles from their tires, the message is now fewer, not just cleaner vehicles. Multipurposing robot shuttles come to the rescue.

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