Cognitive Pilot Robot to Appear at Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg

The ground services assistant will transport passenger luggage from the carousel to the aircraft

The Russian company Cognitive Pilot (a joint venture between Sber and Cognitive Technologies) will supply up to 45 unmanned robots with artificial intelligence to Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg.

Robot for the airport
Robot for the airport
We are talking about a complete, industrial transition of the airport to robotic technology. This is the first project in Russia, and one of the first in the world, to mass use unmanned vehicles to solve airport tasks.
Olga Uskova, CEO of Cognitive Pilot

Robot characteristics:

  • transporting luggage weighing up to 3 tons from the carousel to the aircraft
  • maintaining the cleanliness of the territory (mowing grass, snow removal)
  • speed — up to 15 km/h

The developers expect that the robot will help speed up baggage handling by 23%. Unmanned special equipment will be produced at the Cognitive Pilot enterprise in Tomsk.

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