Koronaforlengelse wheel.me Genius

Offentlig prosjektsammendrag

Driven by a vision of Forever Changing Indoor Mobility, wheel.me aims to become a preferred platform for indoor mobility and materials handing. wheel.me develops and commercializes the world's first autonomous wheel- the wheel.me Genius. The solution will help people improve the way they live and work by enabling everything indoors to move effortlessly on small and cost-effective embedded robots (Smart Wheels). Anything can be transformed into a robotic device with minimal effort, without the need to change the design or form factor. Representing a game-changer, wheel.me Genius is set to disrupt industrial robotics. The largest segment, AGVs, was valued at EURbn 2.5 in 2018,growing at 30% CAGR to reach EURbn 10.3 in 2025E. In addition, unique flexibility and exceedingly low cost allow wheel.me Genius to develop completely new markets. Bottom-up estimates quickly turn into a "numbers-game". Customer pain points and significant macro drivers are addressed: * Increased demand for efficiency and flexibility * Space at a premium everywhere * Big demographic changes * Proprietary solutions leading to fragmented and complex IoT solutions The wheel.me Genius Skattefunn project will be delivered in closecollaboration with the Production Management Research Group at NTNU,and centers on: * New knowledge objectives: Investigating needed changes in facilities planning and the requirements for the successful implementation of thewheel.me Genius. * Technology development and optimization objectives: Technologydevelopment efforts will ensure wheel.me Genius' functionality and test the system in defined user scenarios. * Technology validation objectives: Demonstrating the wheel.me Genius in real-environment settings to stress-test specifications and functionality together with partners.