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Forget Cars, for One Spaniard the Autonomous Future Is Forklifts
Easybots are put through testing at the 5,500 square meter ASTI building.
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In Burgos, a province in central Spain better known for archaeological digs and blood-sausages than for innovation, engineer Veronica Pascual is building automated vehicles. Not cars though, but fork-lifts, stackers and pallet trucks.
Pascual, a 38-year-old aeronautical engineer, owns Asti, a company that produces so-called AGVs, or automated guided vehicles -- mobile robots used in factories and warehouses that don’t require human intervention to move.