The company that invented the Vespa scooter is now testing this amazing luggage-hauling robot

Jun 01, 2018 1403

Seventy two years after launching the iconic Vespa scooter, Italian motor vehicle company Piaggio has unveiled its newest creation: A robot designed to help you get around without a car at all. Piaggio Fast Forward, Piaggio’s American sibling established in 2015, has been testing the Gita, a two-foot-high, two-wheeled mobile carrying robot, out of its Boston offices for a while now. The company has not yet disclosed a price, but it could start popping up in businesses and construction sites as soon as early 2019.

The company’s hope with them is to encourage walking, by eliminating the need for people to need their cars to lug stuff around. The company’s motto is “autonomy for humans” — in other words, creating autonomous products in the service of humans, not replacing them.

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SOURCE: http://www.scmp.com

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