Savioke (now Relay Robotics) · working robot
Relay
originally SaviOne
A small upright robot with a lidded bin that rides elevators to bring items to hotel rooms, then phones the guest on arrival.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
One of the first hotel delivery robots, introduced as 'Botlr' at Aloft Cupertino in 2014.
Real-world use
Relay Robotics reports more than 1.5 million lifetime deliveries for hotels and hospitals such as Hilton, Marriott and Johns Hopkins.
Maker
Savioke (now Relay Robotics)Company · California, USAPublic attention
How much public attention Relay (originally SaviOne) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
- 1 reported deployment
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It drives itself through hotels and hospitals, rides lifts and delivers items with no one at the controls.
- Sensors & vision
- Cameras, lidars and other safety sensors build a live map for path planning
- Battery & power
- Recharges at an on-site dock between deliveries and docks itself when low
- Other details
- 10-gallon lidded bin with removable insert bins; can call and ride networked elevators on its own; top speed about 4 mph at launch
From the maker
Relay (originally SaviOne) is the only machine from Savioke (now Relay Robotics) in the atlas.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Relay reports 1.5 million+ lifetime deliveries and 25,000+ a month
- Customers and pilots
- Hotels: Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, Sonesta, Embassy Suites, Delta Hotels; hospitals: Johns Hopkins, HCA Healthcare, Dignity Health, BayCare; first hotel was Aloft Cupertino
Where it works
1 reported deployment.
- Deployed
Aloft Cupertino (Starwood Hotels) · Aloft Cupertino · Cupertino · since 2014-08 · 1 units
Aloft Cupertino became the first hotel to use Savioke's delivery robot to bring items to guest rooms. Robohub
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Hotel delivery robot starts work in Cupertino
Savioke's robot began delivering amenities to guests at the Aloft Cupertino hotel, riding the elevator on its own.
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Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Relay (originally SaviOne)Savioke (now Relay Robotics) |  HOSPIPanasonicSame job: hospital delivery · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2014-08-13 | 2013-10 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial |
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Sources
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