SEOUL—Engineers at Hyundai Motor Group have developed an automatic charging robot (ACR) for electric vehicles. The one-armed device can plug a cable into an EV’s charging port and remove it after charging.
Once a vehicle is stationary, the ACR communicates with the vehicle to open the charging port, calculating the exact location and angle through a camera. The robot then picks up the charger and fastens it to the vehicle’s charging port. Once charging is complete, the device removes the charger and closes the cover of the vehicle’s charging port.