Source: Reuters
The first robotic car tank filling I have seen was at experimental hydrogen stations in Iceland. Hydrogen is simply too dangerous to handle manually, so cap height, cap shape and filling mechanism were all designed as one system. Now Dutch inventors automate the care tank filling task with a robot that costs €75,000. It recognises the car as it approaches the pump, finds its fuel tank opening, unscrews the cap, fills the tank and then closes cap and flap again. Read the rest of this entry »
