Renault is trialling an autonomous robot on the production line at its Douai factory. We meet it Imagine for a moment – and stick with me here – picking up a baby seal. Not the BYD saloon but the aquatic mammal. At 40kg, he’s a big feller, isn’t he? Now imagine your job is to collect a juvenile example of the pinniped from a box and sling it onto a conveyor belt. You’ll be shovelling the adorably chubby things onto the line for hours at a time, with little rest, and you might well be doing it through the night. Being so rotund and pliable, it’s tricky to get a…
Sidewall-E: Meet Calvin, the tyre-stacking Renault robot
