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Savioke Relay+ Features New Mechanical Elevator Interface and Knocks Down a Major Hurdle to Product Acceptance

Organization: Savioke
Country: USA
Website: https://www.savioke.com/
Year Founded: 2015
Number of Employees: 11-50

The new mechanical elevator interfaces shortens deployment projects from 4+ months to 4 hours while removing a major hurdle to service robot success.

Description:

RBRlogoIn December 2021, Savioke released the Relay+ with a new mechanically actuated elevator button pusher that eliminates the need to communicate electronically with the elevator control unit. Savioke is positioning this feature as “quick install” capability, as the robot uses a vision camera to identify the call buttons and floor buttons and then position the robot to manually push the buttons, just like a human would.


Analysis:
The original Savioke Relay was designed to operate in hotels to deliver sundry items from the front desk to guest rooms. The company is one of the first to deploy its solutions solely in a robots as a service (RaaS) business model.

Savioke quickly learned that each hotel had an elevator from a different elevator vendor, and depending on the vintage of the elevator and the breadth of local laws, that it was difficult to gain automatic control over the operation of a public elevator. The result was that many customer installations slipped months behind schedule while permits were attained and inspections were passed.

As a result, the Relay+ was engineered to use a mechanical actuator along with vision guidance and AI to quickly learn the configuration of any building's physical elevator controls (i.e. the buttons used by humans). This process can be completed in as little as four hours, after which, the Relay+ is able to successfully make deliveries from the front desk to any room in the facility. – Mike Oitzman

savioke relay+ robot pushes elevator button
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