The future of luggage
Not since the invention of rolling luggage has the future of air travel looked so good.
An brainy luggage whose time, if not the actual product, has come, is in development by Iran-based Ikap Robotics. The smart suitcase Olive not only knows its owner, it transports him.
Olive combines a Segway-type two-wheel transporter that is part of the suitcase. The suitcase itself builds a visual map of its surroundings and can follow its owner, distinguishing the owner from other people in a crowd.
Of course it has a built-in scale, GPS, WiFi and an alarmed lock system.
The idea took first place in the Service Robotics section of the 2016 Automatica Start-up World Competition in Munich.
It is not yet available, but versions of it will surely appear shortly.
