ROPITS
Robot for Personal Intelligent Transportation System
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Tokyo, March 12, 2013 - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, "Hitachi") today announced the development of a mobility-support robot "ROPITS"*1 equipped with a "specified arbitrary point autonomous pick-up and drop-off function" that can autonomously navigate to a point specified by a portable information terminal. The "specified arbitrary point autonomous pick-up and drop-off function" enables autonomous locomotion to a specified arbitrary point identified on a map on the Reservation/ Operation Screen of a portable information terminal. Using this function, ROPITS is able to autonomously go and pick-up a passenger at any desired pick-up point on a footpath, or deliver a passenger to a specified arbitrary destination.
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ROPITS is affordable single seater robot for autonomous locomotion on footpaths. It has capability of indoor / outdoor environment self-position estimation. You can get Stable movement drive using active suspension with ROPITS
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https://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/130312.html
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