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by dmillard
548 days ago
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Thanks for the feedback! John B was obviously aware from previous experience what a manual and injury prone process this was, but I've also been really surprised as I've dived deeper into airport operations myself. Bagroom is definitely what we're targeting first - being indoors (usually) is a huge plus, and lets us focus on the manipulation part of the problem without going fully mobile yet. That said, we're definitely targeting tarmac/ramp operations, particularly between a TUG/PowerStow and narrow-body bag carts. Inside the bin is much trickier but we agree it's the least ergonomic part of the job, you just can't move a massive industrial arm in and out of a plane very easily. We have it on our longer-term roadmap, though, and intend to leverage the baggage dynamics data we collect everywhere else to give us a head start on the packing and manipulation problems there, just with a different mechanism. Cargo packing is a huge area of interest for us! Particularly around optimizing weight distribution in loaded planes, or just optimizing packing efficiency in general. |
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