Tesla prototype is snakelike arm, guides itself into port to charge

Saturday, August 8, 2015 - 05:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Tesla Motors has revealed a new charger for its vehicles—a robotic-arm, snakelike car charger. A video shows it at work and it is quite easy to watch more than once as it rises and makes its way into the car. Bill Howard in ExtremeTech saw it as a "multi-segmented" robotic arm, which "rises up and slithers snake-like" toward the left rear quarter panel of the Tesla toward the charging port, aligns itself, and connects.

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