Here is another great innovation in line, the one a robot launched by the robotics and AI specialist Vayu. It is designed to navigate the stores and street at speeds up to 20 mph autonomously. It is the next-generation AI technology in the segment of autonomous deliveries.
As per Company website “Vayu” is derived from Sanskrit and represents “the intelligence that enables all motion in the universe and all movement of energy.” The company’s thre co-founders held positions at Velodyne Apple, and Lyft before combining forces to combine decades of knowledge in robotics and autonomous software.
As per Vayu Robotics, the robot took the opposite design approach to many of its competitors in the autonomous delivery space today. Website also describes rather than relying on expensive LiDAR sensors and software modules that are only capable of one task at a time, the Vayu team combines a transformer-based mobility foundation model with a passive sensor, alleviating the need for LiDAR altogether.
Vayu CEO Anand Gopalan said, “The unique set of technologies we have developed at Vayu have allowed us to solve problems that have plagued delivery robots over the past decade, and finally create a solution that can actually be deployed at scale and enable the cheap transport of goods everywhere.”
The Vayu One can operate without pre-mapping roads and also navigating insite stores, sidewalks and driveways. It is a small size autonomous vehicle that can transport up to 100 pounds of cargo at speeds up to 20 mph.
Vayu also says it is already working with a leading global robotics manufacturer to replace its LiDAR sensors with it’s sensing technology to support other robotic applications beyond autonomous deliveries and plans to adapt the technology to support different methods of transport in the future.
Gopalan also explained that Our software is robot form factor agnostic and we have already deployed it across several wheeled form factors. In the near future, Vayu’s software technology will enable the movement of quadrupedal and bipedal robots, allowing us to expand into those markets as well.
