Capra Robotics Enhances Autonomous Mobile Robots with Telekom IoT Services and Precise Positioning Solution

Autonomous robotics is booming – take logistics. The Danish robotics specialist Capra Robotics is now using Deutsche Telekom’s IoT mobile and satellite network and Swift Navigation. © Capra Robotics, Bildbearbeitung: Evelyn Ebert Meneses

(IN BRIEF) Capra Robotics, a Danish leader in autonomous robotics, partners with Deutsche Telekom and Swift Navigation to enhance the capabilities of its mobile robots. Leveraging Telekom’s IoT network and Swift’s precise positioning technology, Capra ensures seamless connectivity and accurate navigation for its robots, addressing challenges in logistics, urban maintenance, and agriculture. The collaboration underscores a commitment to innovation in autonomous robotics, offering transformative solutions for various industries.

(PRESS RELEASE) BONN, 12-Feb-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — Deutsche Telekom (ETR: DTE), one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies and the largest telecommunications provider in Europe by revenue, announces Capra Robotics, a Danish leader in autonomous robotics, has teamed up with Deutsche Telekom’s IoT services and Swift Navigation to elevate the capabilities of its mobile robots. By leveraging Telekom’s IoT mobile and satellite network and Swift’s precise positioning technology, Capra Robotics ensures seamless connectivity and accurate navigation for its autonomous solutions.

The burgeoning field of autonomous robotics extends far beyond industrial settings, with diverse applications emerging in logistics, urban maintenance, and agriculture. Capra Robotics addresses two critical challenges in this domain: ensuring reliable cellular coverage and achieving precise positioning for accurate task execution. By integrating Deutsche Telekom’s IoT network and Swift Navigation’s positioning solution, Capra Robotics ensures that its autonomous robots can operate in real-time with minimal deviation from their intended positions.

Capra Robotics’ robotic solutions offer versatility and efficiency across various applications. Equipped with add-ons such as vacuum nozzles, spray nozzles, or cloud-connected stereo cameras, these robots automate tasks ranging from city cleaning and parcel delivery to farming assistance. They navigate through complex environments, avoiding obstacles and collisions with the help of AI-supported navigation systems and camera technology.

Dennis Nikles, CEO of Deutsche Telekom IoT GmbH, highlights the significance of this collaboration: “The autonomous mobile robots relieve the burden on qualified employees by autonomously handling repetitive tasks. With global connectivity and precise positioning provided by Deutsche Telekom, we ensure unparalleled service quality for our customers.”

Lars Hee Hansen, Chief Commercial Officer of Capra Robotics, emphasizes the unique capabilities of their robots in bridging the gap between indoor and outdoor logistics. “Companies invest heavily in optimizing their intralogistics to ensure the smooth flow of materials within production facilities. However, a bottleneck arises when moving material between production units. The transition from indoor to outdoor presents a unique set of challenges for traditional robots, resulting in labor-intensive and time-consuming manual handling. Thanks to the combination of reliable connectivity, precise positioning and camera-based navigation, Capra robots offer companies the ability to bridge the gap between indoor and outdoor logistics.”

Deutsche Telekom’s extensive network, encompassing mobile communications and satellite connectivity, ensures seamless IoT connectivity worldwide. With Swift Navigation’s precise positioning solution, Capra Robotics can achieve location accuracy of up to four centimeters, significantly enhancing the navigation capabilities of its autonomous robots.

The collaboration between Capra Robotics, Deutsche Telekom, and Swift Navigation underscores a shared commitment to innovation and efficiency in the field of autonomous robotics, offering transformative solutions for various industries.

Deutsche Telekom offers a convergent, reliable network with mobile communications and satellite. With a growing network of cooperating specialists such as Intelsat and Skylo, the company seamlessly supplements traditional terrestrial IoT connections such as NB-IoT, LTE-M, 4G and 5G with satellite connectivity. This makes it a global IoT connector for a seamless IoT network, even in areas with poor mobile coverage, large expanses of water or in the air. Roaming agreements with over 600 partners around the world ensure borderless connectivity worldwide.

With Swift Navigation, Deutsche Telekom also offers a cloud solution for position calculation with an accuracy of up to four centimeters. The Skylark positioning solution from Swift corrects the precision of conventional satellite navigation systems. This is often only three to five meters. To do this, the data from 40 to 50 satellites is used in a recalculation via so called reference stations distributed evenly across the Telekom network.

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