{"id":133279,"date":"2021-12-30T01:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T09:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/kawasakis-unmanned-cargo-vtol-aircraft-completes-poc-testing"},"modified":"2021-12-30T01:22:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T09:22:51","slug":"kawasakis-unmanned-cargo-vtol-aircraft-completes-poc-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/kawasakis-unmanned-cargo-vtol-aircraft-completes-poc-testing","title":{"rendered":"Kawasaki\u2019s unmanned cargo VTOL aircraft completes PoC testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vkbkoWFNVEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced the successful completion of proof-of-concept (PoC) testing for unmanned cargo transport by the cooperation of its K-RACER X1 unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/aircraft\/\">aircraft<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/delivery-robot\/\">delivery robot<\/a>. The PoC testing was conducted with the aim of helping to solve societal issues such as labor shortages in the logistics industry.<\/p>\n<p>In its Group Vision 2030, which describes the company\u2019s future vision for 2030, Kawasaki specified three areas where it will focus its efforts: \u201cA Safe and Secure Remotely-Connected Society,\u201d \u201cNear-Future Mobility\u201d and \u201cEnergy and Environmental Solutions.\u201d In the area of \u201cNear-Future Mobility,\u201d the company has been pursuing the development of unmanned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/VTOL\/\">VTOLs<\/a>, delivery robots, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Kawasaki\u2019s latest unmanned VTOL adopts improvements to an aircraft flight-tested in 2020. It is able to transport a 100-kilogram payload and is equipped with a delivery robot loading and unloading mechanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced the successful completion of proof-of-concept (PoC) testing for unmanned cargo transport by the cooperation of its K-RACER X1 unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft and delivery robot. The PoC testing was conducted with the aim of helping to solve societal issues such as labor shortages in the logistics industry. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}