EVAR - autonomous charging robot by Samsung 

Excellent scoop Bjorn. There will be thousands of motoring journalists worldwide green with envy that you were honoured with the first general news release of this :-).

Perfect for AirPort where the owner might be gone for weeks. Topping up now and then.

I like the concept, but 10 connectors in the wall or on the ground are a lot more cheaper and can charge more cars...

Wow, very cool. Congratulations for this find.

Very cool that you got this opportunity. Thank you for linking the EVAR demo video

This would be perfect for the fleet vehicles that we have at work. They could all be charged up overnight by the robot and we wouldnt need 30x outdoor wall sockets for the cars or one rapid charger and then someone for the office to move cars around all day

I find it interesting that Tesla and other EV manufacturers just assume every EV owner has a private garage where a dedicated charger (or space for an automated charger like Tesla demoed) is available. It is true that in US, anyone with money for a Tesla most likely has a dedicated, private garage, especially in California and such. In Seoul, S. Korea, almost no one owns a detached house with an attached private, dedicated garage. Virtually no one, except for crazy 'super' rich S Koreans. Everyone basically lives in a high rise apartment, and if the building is relative new, it would have an underground, shared parking space like shown in the video by Bjorn N. Thus this EVAR concept was planned and implemented, because that is literally the only viable option in places like S. Korea. If EV manufacturers can come up with a somewhat of a standardized way to open charger port automatically and skip the manual adapter step, I can see this EVAR being super useful. Btw, installing anything in a building (new or retrofitting in an existing building) will cost money, time. And once THAT technology used with the building becomes obsolete, what do you do next? With EVAR, it's literally a matter of making the robots in a factory and shipping them out. This EVAR is a good start.

Great bit of kit ,Hopefully this will take off and can be adapted for all countries . Thanks for sharing.

This is great. Everyday a New Video from Bjørn.

This is the way to go to electrify air-port long time parking! And to some degree hotels and other long time parking. Probably possible to have many robots share one dock, and have the robots line up to recharge, then to stand by fully charged. Maybe possible to have different price if you want charging immediately, or can wait for hours or days.

The car should simply drive itself into the parking space and 'reach out and plug itself in '. The car can be part of the grid and trade power/ stability for money.

Interesting idea! BTW that QR-Code style tag on the connector on the car is an ARTag. I guess, they use ROS, the robotic operating system. Makes implementing this much easier as many functions are there already. Still nice work and lots of stuff to put together!

what about autonomous vehicles that drive to a spot after charging and another autonomous car is chosen to go to the parking spot for fast charging

Thank you!

Great video! thank you for sharing

Awesome! Well done Samsung for designing for the future.

I could such a system being further developed where by you have the connector built into the bumper of the car and you combine that with something like car-to-X to communicate with the robot

Super concept!

Nice Idea! I like the concept. I also can imagine a system with connectors or bus bars on the ceiling of the car park to enable higher charging rates and that woul make a large battery in the robot unnecessary.

really cool! A little step in the big step :)

Where can I get a full details about this robot

Nice stuff!

Goodonyah Bjorn, you are killing it.

Developed by Samsung. Now, Every EV car manufacturers are watching. Samsung will make this robot into, charging, security, first aid, shopping cart- delivering heavy items to car.

But how that works on teslas? Do you just need longer cable?

Great concept

Hi Björn, thanks for this video. I guess before this concept came true the autonomous cars will park to the carport with charging station. Although pretty neat technology from Samsung.

Cool concept. However, with the Niro and Kona where the charge door opens out, you would have to be careful that the machine will not bump and damage it. Looks like there is enough clearance but it might be a tight fit.

this would be pretty cool if they had a pantograph overhead that the robot could just fast charge the car where its parked and then move to the next car and charge that - i really am excited for the future

Where is this? Their HQ?! Wow. I want to visit and do a video as well!! This is so awesome!!

what is the robot's MPGe ???

Cool! And this is just the beginning of what be can done with charging 😃 👍🏼 It's almost like our vacuum robot is looking for its charging station 😅 But for a Tesla you'll need a real long cable from the license plate to the charge port 😉

I like concepts and new tech, so this is cool. But is this actually any better/cheaper than just putting in a bunch of connectors? For the price of one robot I would think you could put a charging plug in a dozen or more parking spots.

Question is when are we getting this in UK Birmingham and how soon will it come to the market

Pretty neat. Just the thing to prevent EV-holes from tying up charging stations too long.

In Berlin some guys founded a company which delivers power by batterys in bicycle trailers to parking EV by call. At least this robot is nice but the whole process remembers me on a scene in "Back to the future" where a huge machine is working and steaming a long time just to produce an ice cube.

How fast this robot charge the car? And what is the price of this robot?

An awsome idea. 😍

This proof of concept is just a starting point of what is possible. I see the robot more for low frequented outdoor lots where it makes no sense to install a full blown charging infrastructure. The adapter is really the key innovation here. Parking garages could have moving charge points attached to a monorail mounted on the ceiling either front or back position of the parking lot with an extending arm coming down from the ceiling to connect to the charging adapter. This would make the robot obsolete in this kind of setting. Also large outdoor parking lots like at IKEA could be retrofitted with a charging rail with moving electric chargers, making obsolete any stationary charge points. I can see a lot of great innovations coming our way. And it is going to move fast once EV really starts taking off.

That is fascinating.

THIS IS SO COOL! If you move to Korea... that`s it, I`m moving too ;-)

How neat is that

cool concept! now execute it mounted on a powered track attached to the ceiling, it can then navigate to any cars needing charging, drop a plug and charge away at FULL SPEED.

Very cool. How does the robot charge itself?

Nice!

Nice technology!

AWESOME video, Bjorn SHIIIITTT

Why not put a Charging Plug that can come from the ceiling where they put in there own cable and the robot connects to that connector in the ceiling to charge? Way faster because it's a fixed point...

Nice idea, would it not be a faster set up if the charger would place a wireless charging pad under the nose of the car instead of trying to align to a plug?

No matter if this is cool, a great solution or perfect or not. It's a a great idea! It's one step ahead! It's one of the million ideas that will come up in the future.

How about solar panel on tesla car charging 24/7 ????

Glad to see that my children will have their own "inkjet printer"-experience with charging robots. Like the machine runs some weird protocol, moving from left to right, making strange noises etc. Looks cool, but maybe it will be more convenient to increase the number of wallboxes in the parking lot. Parking spots without a pillar can have the box on the ceiling and the plug is mounted on a rail next to it. Enter the number of your parking spot and the plug comes down. Still i prefer the R2D2 experience.

I think airport boarding bridges will be using this technology before you see it in car parks

Nice 👌

Awsome 👍🏻😎 the way forward

So it charges the car with 10kwh and then needs to recharge? They could maybe build a inductive system under the road to charge the robot

I am trying to contact with your company but no one responded for email

Imagine one of these slow bots crossing ur path while driving ughh!

Parking garages can have rails on the roof where these robots always can stay connected, i would think that would be alot more convienient.

very cool

Awesome

Reminds me of a pod from 2001 A space odyssey lol

It's cool and convenient. Has me wondering why Samsung isn't in the EV manufacturing business since they are Jack of all trade. Good job Mr Nyland.

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The number plate is unreadable because of the plug in on the number plate.

Neat idea. It should use a phone app and GPS though instead of having to scan a code. Oh, yeah, GPS doesn't work so well underground or under concrete. :)

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Everybody backs in to park. I guess that's a rule to speed up evacuation. That would make it awkward for EVs with the plug in the back. Hopefully it makes it into production

How did it connect didn't see it

Bjørn EV robo-scoop!

Looks like there's some minor details needs to be improved, but the concept itself seems to be good and sound. Since this tech is now shown to the world, I believe in the near future there will be a lot of car charging robots basically using this method of charging.

Some might call this the best charger EVAR... Well it is cool at least to see the concept, I hope they can upgrade it to the point where they will just have all the universal plugs and do the whole process themselves. With this adapter you are doing even more work then just getting a plug directly into the car, but it could be a huge benefit to have a mobile robot charging cars on any parking space without the need to put in thousands of super chargers.

By the time I’m done shopping it would have just connected

The much simpler and cheaper solution: park in a spot, scan nfc in nearby pillar and a power plug is extended from ceiling so you can manually charge your car. Done. That way every parking spot you can have your own power plug from the ceiling.

r2d2 just violated that car :-0

There should be a nother robot to change the battery in the robot so it's turn over time is minimal

Verry good idea, for now my Roomba is quicker than that ! how about a car with side charging port ?

After EVE, EVAR ^^ A small step for the robot, but a big step for the universe ^^

Maybe it should turn on the lights when it moves back after disconnecting, not only once it goes back to the station, else it might move unexpectedly and a passing car would be in danger

Nice concept ... But i feels its rather less efficient to charge a battery via a battery ... It would be better if every 6 car lot has one cable and the robot just manages the cable throughout

wow!

Yeah I've seen this today on the news!!its from samsung clab project. I thought it was clever that in most buildings setting up new ev station is inefficient and at times its occupied already either by evs or fossil cars. It steps up to more environment friendly by using recycled ev battery as power sourceㅋㅋㅋ

Cool stuff, but I don't see many benefits here. You still have to plug in the car. I think cable is cheaper than a robot with a battery. I think future is wireless charging. Module under the car and charger in every parking slot. You just drive the car to a slot and accept charging with a push of a button.

10 kWh?

Must have a big battery pack in in!?

It looks korea Where is there???

It is a much better way to charge. The charger comes to you in your park. Saves having to queue for the charger. The final product would be way faster and not need the adaptor plug etc I'm sure. Need universal plug and Universal charge port design so robot can remotely open it and dock.

Need a face. It'll be like those robots in Wall-E

Forever get there

I don't see too much high tech in this (very old tech like you have in IT tape storage robots for years. Why they don't have a plugs in the ceiling at every parking spot so robot would be smaller. Then it is so slow finding spot then even slower connecting. My old robotic vacuum does better job finding charging station :-). As a new tech I would consider something with AI and cameras so it finds charging port (just by taking a picture of the car should be able to know where charging port is) and doesn't use adapters but plugs in directly.

It’s fun but it would probably be quicker and cost way less to install plugs at each parking spot than having an army of robots (and robots will increase the traffic in the parking lots, not what people want).

But can it charge my iPhone?

Wow

6:39 Baby, you sure you want this? Is this your first time? I'll be gentle. Really gentle. Ahh yea 8:14 whoa baby, you did good. How'd you like it? I'm so honoured to go through this with you together.

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I think just set a small capacity removable battery in the car would be more practical and efficient

Good idea but atm too complicated

Let's buy the Samsung Group for 2nd King Hyungjin Sean Moon.

R2-D2 is that you?

I don't like the fact that you need to put a extension for it to function...