Hands-free EV charging specialist Rocsys demonstrated its encouraging progress in enabling automated driving and charging in the commercial EV segment. As part of the MAGPIE initiative in Europe, Rocsys held a demonstration event in The Netherlands earlier today that showcased a fully electric autonomous truck navigating a port in Rotterdam before self-driving itself to a Rocsys robotic device, which began charging it automatically. You’re going to want to see the video below; it’s pretty awesome.
Rocsys is a leading provider of hands-free charging methods for electric and autonomous vehicles that designs and implements next-generation soft robotics, advanced computer vision, and data-driven services to commercial fleets and port operators.
Rocsys’ proprietary platform includes the first interoperable robotic hands-free charging solution, which we’ve covered in the past. According to the company, its automatic charging platform “provides a foundation to accelerate the shift towards full autonomous mobility, with Rocsys seeing huge demand across ports, logistics, and robotaxi industries.”
Its latest milestone debuts in the form of Demonstrator 9, an Automated & Electric Trucking project funded by European Horizon 2020 as part of the MAGPIE Initiative in Europe. It is one of ten demonstration projects focused on developing green ports of the future.
To tout its progress in self-charging technologies, Rocsys deployed an all-electric autonomous truck from DAF Trucks, which navigated the port itself before driving to a charger and automatically beginning a session, which you can see below.
Rocsys adds self-charging to autonomous truck tech
The demonstration event was held at APM Terminals Maasvlakte II at the Port of Rotterdam earlier today. During the “show.,” an electric DAF Truck drove autonomously with a driver present in the cab before self-driving itself to a Rocsys charger for an automated top-off.
Attendees at the event included guests from companies in various international port areas, municipal and national governments, partners from the European PIONEERS project, Marieke Frensch, CTO of APM Terminals MVII, and Reyer Will, project manager of the MAGPIE project.
The participating companies described the self-charging demonstration as a “significant milestone in the automation of logistics operations on industrial sites” and “a prelude to new applications of automated trucks in industrial zones and on public roads in the distant future.”
As part of the MAGPIE Initiative, Rocsys hopes to expand the operability of its self-charging technology to enable a new world of green ports around the world. Want to see it in action? We know you do! See below:
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