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Autonomous Work Vehicle (third generation)
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Honda Motor Co., Ltd. · working robot

Autonomous Work Vehicle

third generation

Honda's all-electric third-generation work vehicle has a bed for two pallets rated at 2,000 lb, lidar navigation where satellite positioning is weak, tablet route programming and an 18.6 kWh battery for up to 10 hours. It drives itself at up to 10 mph.

Price
—not sold; commercialisation not announced
Height
—Not published
Weight
—Not published
Payload
907 kgCarries more than 76%
Speed
16.1 km/hFaster than 94%
Battery
10 hRuns longer than 52%
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Why it matters

A prototype machine from Honda.

Real-world use

Earlier second-generation units ran a month-long test at a Black & Veatch solar construction site in New Mexico in 2021, carrying nearly 900 lb loads (Vision Systems Design, Mar 2023).

Timeline

First shown
2023-03
Released
Not yet
CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023, Las Vegas

Maker

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Company · founded 1948 · Tokyo, Japan

public company (TYO: 7267; NYSE: HMC)

How it stacks up

Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

  1. Autonomous Work Vehicle (third generation)Honda · 202316.1 km/h
  2. AMR IL 1200Continental (automotive business now Aumovio) · 20237.2 km/h
  3. Servi PlusBear Robotics · 20234.3 km/h
  4. L50CenoBots · 20234.3 km/h
  5. DINERBOT T8Keenon Robotics · 20233.6 km/h
  6. DINERBOT T10Keenon Robotics · 20233.6 km/h
  7. DINERBOT T3Keenon Robotics · 20233.6 km/h
  8. KachakaPreferred Robotics · 20231.4 km/h

Autonomous Work Vehicle (third generation) is faster than 94% of the 86 other working & field robots that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Speed 16.1 km/h 0.4 km/h40.2 km/h #6 of 87 · faster than 94%

Not published by the maker: height, weight, joints, price.

Public attention

How much public attention Autonomous Work Vehicle (third generation) gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • No recent press stories listed yet

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What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Movement
Wheeled base

From the maker

Autonomous Work Vehicle (third generation) is the only machine from Honda in the atlas.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. also makes 7 humanoids. See every Honda Motor Co., Ltd. robot

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price
Not publishednot sold; commercialisation not announced
How to get one
No official buying page found

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

Vision Systems Design Honda Releases Prototype Autonomous Work Vehicle Equipment World Honda's Autonomous Work Vehicle 3.0 Gets Capacity, Navigation Upgrades

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