What ever happened to Truckla?

Summary by Krater

Simone Giertz and the Viam team build an automated robotic charging platform for "Truckla," Simone's custom Tesla Model 3 pickup truck. After building a linear actuator rover prototype using Viam's robotics platform and programming it with a Raspberry Pi, the team successfully tests and demonstrates the robot autonomously plugging into Truckla's charging port.

From the video

Answers: Can you build an autonomous robot to charge a custom Tesla pickup truck?

• autonomous robot charger
• Tesla Model 3 pickup truck conversion
• robotics platform programming
• linear actuator rover design
• Viam robotics software

What it concludes

• The initial rover prototype was not strong enough to push the charger into the port, comparing it to stabbing a watermelon with a blade of grass.
• The team successfully developed a linear actuator rover design using Viam that autonomously plugs into Truckla's charging port without human intervention.