Cowarobot R1:
Cowarobot R1 is a fully autonomous smart suitcase, that follows its users while avoiding any obstacles in its path. We have merged upcoming technology with the suitcase in hopes that our new invention can allow people to travel more conveniently.
With all due respect to my esteemed colleague Dave Mark, I think “rideable luggage” is a silly idea. Now, luggage that follows you around like a puppy? I’d buy that. But this is yet another Indiegogo campaign I don’t expect to be delivered on schedule or, for that matter, delivered at all.
Cool. Free stuff at the airport from distracted Silicon Valley douche-canoes!
An Indiegogo campaign … definitely a fraud.
I was certain I had seen something similar before that I haven’t heard anything about regarding progress. Thanks, Internet — from 2012:
http://www.gizmag.com/hop-suitcase/24495/
Maybe it is made of sapient pearwood.
http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/The_Luggage
Man, you linked us like we needed the link. Sigh. 🙂
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I trust no one these days. Sorry. 🙂
it’s okay. I’ll get over being insulted so. 🙂
The rideable luggage idea seems more absurd to me the more I think of it. To move a human, you’re going to need a battery and motor in that luggage that must be about the size of the luggage. It’s bound to be less rideable luggage than uncomfortable scooter with extremely limited range and almost no storage.
So, a piece of luggage that is literally designed to be out of your sight almost all the time.
How do you figure that? The video shows the luggage right next to the user.
Just on the basis that it must “follow” its user. Regardless of what a promotional video (I admit to not watching it) shows, think about it a second: there is no way the suitcase is going to know which way you’re going to go until you’ve already moved in that direction. It essentially has to follow you, not move along beside you, and for this reason it will be out of view any time you’re moving.
OK. Go watch the video and then come on back. We’ll wait… 🙂
Shawn, you’re right, that’s exactly what the video shows.
My argument is that it just can’t work.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been in an airport that wasn’t pretty crowded. It would take a special kind of sorcery for a programmed device to make its way through hustling crowds, stay by your side, and somehow not have everybody tripping over it, including you any time you need to make a right turn.
If it followed its user, it might at least be possible.