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IPA2X : Meet Skoda’s New Robotic Rover Designed To Escorts Children, Elderly Crossing The Road
Meet Skoda’s IPA2X, an Autonomous Robotic Rover designed to escorts children and the elderly crossing the road.
5G-enabled autonomous robot Lider as well displays designed to notify nearby vehicles of pedestrians’ movements.
IPA2X will also improve pedestrian and cyclist safety and a significantly reduced number of road accidents and deaths.
Meet the Intelligent Pedestrian Assistant (IPA2X), a robotic roadside assistant designed in partnership with Czech car manufacturer, Skoda, to increase pedestrian safety, especially for children, elderly as well as people with disabilities.
The 5G-enabled autonomous robot is packed with Ultrasonic Sensors Camera Array Lider, 4 Multi-directional Dot Matrix LED Monitors as well displays designed to notify nearby vehicles of pedestrians’ movements.
Though the main objective is to increase the safety of pedestrians, especially children and older people, eiturbanmobility notes on its website that the robot will also improved pedestrian and cyclist safety and a significantly reduced number of road accidents and deaths.
“The notify nearby vehicles of the pedestrians’ movements, project is helping to achieve zero accidents and decrease fatalities in urban areas. It will improve pedestrian safety by implementing a service of autonomous robots to assist pedestrians cross streets, notify nearby vehicles of the pedestrians’ movements, and identify obstacles on footpaths, bike paths and roads that may hinder pedestrian movements.”
“In particular, the robots will assist people with limited mobility such as parents with young children, wheelchair users, and elderly people. User feedback will be solicited over the course of the project to improve the service.”
The robotic rover is currently being tested in partnership with the Technical University of Munich, Institute of Informatics, HIPERT, Robotics and Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
In addition to increasing pedestrian safety as well as reducing carbon and noise emissions, Skoda notes that the 2-metre tall robot could lower costs of local police presence – meaning it could soon be gunning for the jobs of traffic officers.
