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By: Going Like Sixty
Gas Pumping Robots to Fuel Cars - Dutch "Tankpitstop" Robot
Imagine the possibility of robots with gas - for your car. Dutch inventors revealed the Tankpitstop Robot that is capable of fueling cars.
The ingenious invention figures out the type of car you are driving and then matches it to a database of fuel designs. After assessing the vehicle, an arm with sensors reaches out opens the gas door, unscrews the cap and then releases gas into the tank.
“Dutch inventors unveiled on Monday a 75,000 euro ($111,100) car-fuelling robot they say is the first of its kind,” Reuters detailed.
All that is needed now is a way to swipe your credit card, and they are golden.
"I was on a farm and I saw a robotic arm milking a cow. If a robot can do that then why can't it fill a car tank, I thought," said developer and petrol station operator Nico van Staveren. "Drivers needn't get dirty hands or smell of petrol again."
He hopes to introduce the "Tankpitstop" robot in a handful of Dutch stations by the end of the year. It works for any car whose tank can be opened without a key, and whose contours and dimensions have been recorded to avoid scratching.
Asked whether he would trust his car to a robotic garage attendant, Jelger De Kroon, filling his black Alfa Romeo at a nearby gas station, said: "Why not? I guess I could keep my hands free and clean, but I'd hope they have good insurance."
(msnbc.msn)
Via: msnbc.msn Posted: Feb 4, 08
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 Good job! I just posted the same story seconds after your. Kudos :)By: ayMan on Feb 4, 08 | 769 Trends | 368 Comments |
 Great, How much for gas to cover the cost of the robot service. Radical idea.
Nice.
Great for Heavy Use locales.
Rental car Centers.
Truck stops.
Motels.
Near Hwy Patrol centers?
Near Trucking Centers.
Link to Tollways??
Radical.
Very 2010.By: rocketranger on Feb 4, 08 | 0 Trends | 1911 Comments |
 Great innovationBy: Victoria Tremlin on Feb 5, 08 | 32 Trends | 43 Comments |
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