Battery-free autonomous robots

Stickers bring to mind brightly coloured children’s arts and crafts projects, not battery power. Yet it is with stickers that Israeli technology company CaPow runs Genesis, its perpetual power system for autonomous robots. Wireless energy-transmitting stickers placed around a workspace on the floor power robots that drive over them. Any excess power from each passing robot is stored in the robot for future use.

CaPow’s internal receiver and power bank free up 90 per cent of the space that a traditional battery would use, reducing the weight of the robots as well as providing room for additional use options. To optimise the placement of the stickers, the company provides businesses with a floor planner tool to calculate the most efficient layouts.