Robot shuttles: IDTechEx report analyses major new form of transportation
BOSTON, Dec. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — IDTechEx has issued the first in-depth report on this called “Robot Shuttles and Autonomous Buses 2020-2040”. Robot shuttles are an important, new, reconfigurable form of transportation for goods and people that may even function as mobile offices, workshops, restaurants and more. It finds that the heart of the subject is upright, boxy, 8-20 person vehicles that are symmetrical like small trains, and they never do U-turns. With a small footprint, all-around vision, large doors and being quiet with zero-emissions, they can go indoors and over piazzas and roads and are able to perform many different tasks, even in one day. Primarily intended for intensive urban use, they are gated to never exceed a determined speed, typically in the range 50-60 kph.