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If you’ve ever pulled into a service station and thought, I wish someone would fill her up for me, you may just get your wish if this Dutch robot has its way.

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Named Tankpitstop, it costs over $110,000 as is the first car-fuelling robot (how no one thought of that before is remarkable). The robot first reads the registering of the car on arrival and matches it to a database of fuel cap designs and fuel types. What can go wrong…

From there it only gets more complicated as a robotic arm (fitted with numerous sensors) extends towards the car, carefully pulls open the car’s flap, unscrews the cap, picks up the correct fuel nozzle and pushes it into the tank opening. Not bad!

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There are some limitations though, firstly it requires your car’s fuel cap to be keyless and the system needs to have a recording of your car’s dimensions (to avoid hitting the car).

“I was on a farm and I saw a robotic arm milking a cow. If a robot can do that then why can’t it fill a car tank, I thought,” said developer Nico van Staveren.

Real-world testing is scheduled to begin at a few Dutch petrol stations by the end of the year, so it’s unlikely we would see it in Australia for some time.


Tell me, would you actually let a robot fill up your precious car???

Never in a million years - be it a Civic or a Zonda. Considering technology has already ruined the traditional value of most things, I don't need yet another thing taking away from even the simple enjoyment of filling my car with petrol.

Never... I don't even let other people fuel up my car.

Hell no & if that emotions-less machine scratch my car, I'll get the hell out of that gas station, like robots ...!

Are people getting this lazy, all the resources and research of this project can be spent on better things than this.

***..alot of hate against the robot..
if its accurate..i would let it do the work..but i would not sit inside..i would go out and smell the gas..and watch the technology work

PS
If its a sunny day ofcourse...haha

I cry everytime I have to fill up my car.

But seriously, I think its pretty cool. Sometimes it's just so damn cold I don't want to get out of the car and have to do it.

LOL @ smelling the gas though.

Nope. I have 2 hands, I don't need somone or some "thing" doing something I can do my self.

I don't let anyone else fill up my are, unless they are paying for the fuel...
The last two times I was in New Jersey I filled up my own car, it is illegal to fill up your own car The last time the guy came over and looked at me filling it up and walked away

Second that!