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"They work with a laser that measures the different distances inside the walls in the warehouse," says Vittorio Cavirani, an electronic engineer with "Elettric80": http://www.elettric80.com/. "These measurements give the robots their spatial position, so the machines are able to move around different paths in a very accurate way, in a range of millimetres." It's a real challenge to allow different machines to move around autonomously in a given space like this. They have to calculate path and speed, and they have to do it in a safe way. Safety is a fundamental issue here." Electronic and sensor engineers developed systems that allow robots to understand their surrounding environment so they can follow determined paths -and avoid collisions. To achieve this, complex and sophisticated devices were installed in the circuit boards... euronews knowledge brings you a fresh mix of the world's most interesting know-hows, directly from space and sci-tech experts.

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