Robots Stable will charge the charging batteries of electric vehicles unmanned

2 August 2019

In the United States started a pilot project on robotics of charging stations for electric vehicles-drones -

Company Electrify America (a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group), firm Stable Auto (formerly Diatom Robotics) and Black & Veatch said that starting a pilot project to implement a fully robotic charging station for unmanned vehicles. The first such experienced terminal with a capacity of 150 kW due to open in San Francisco early next year. The management of the entire project takes over the company Stable, whereas Electrify America will supply the battery charger, well, Black & Veatch will handle engineering and infrastructure support.

Under this system, the human involvement in the process unnecessary (photo on the splash screen). Directly the drone-an electric car needs to Park in standard Parking spaces, and to share robot Stable have "automated connection between the vehicle and charger".

Robotics charging needed, primarily for large corporate California parks that are now intense elektrifiziert commercial vehicles, and the approach is fully Autonomous taxi. CEO Rohan Stable Piura says: "Our simulations showed a significant reduction in operating costs per mile in the presence of automated infrastructure in strategically important locations". By the way, Electrify America has pledged to invest over ten years in the charging infrastructure of about $2 billion and to create a network of five hundred charging stations. Today their number is 262.

background: the company Stable Auto was founded in 2017 by the people from MIT, Stanford, Google and other firms with the goal of creating a "gas station of the future", and today is supported by a number of private venture investors (called business angels). Their manipulators and their software company strongly does not apply, although, for example, participated in the creation of flexible (literally – with a flexible corrugated arm) charging robot Tesla, demonstrated in 2015.

PS Until the modern trend of charging higher capacity and powerful battery only goes in the direction of increase power charger (already achieved 400-kalavathy abroad, and on the way and 800 kilowattage "hypercharger"), and the rapid replacement of dead batteries already charged actually remained on the sidelines of global technological progress. This I mean that the introduction of robots, chargers for these currents is justified not only because of their effectiveness, but also safety of the people, because in several countries, working with such currents of industrial capacity requires professional admission than a robot charger not the solution to the issue? In addition, it is in the spirit of the time: unmanned robotaxi charged with a robot charger – exclusion of the human factor with its right to make a mistake definitely right.