The applications for this new robot will be such things as local area couriers in factories, hospitals (perhaps with a locking compartment for drugs etc), laboratories, offices and nuclear establishments. Such things as:
Floor Cleaning,
Delivery System (e.g. Mail Delivery, Supplies, Raw Materials, Meals etc),
Telepresence Security Patrol.
R20 Mobile Robot
ST have worked with autonomous mobile robots since 1989. At that time the prototype was connected via an umbilical cable to a fixed computer. Now autonomous robots have come of age and ST will soon launch a range of mobile robots starting with the R20 (code named "mercury").
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