Black in Robotics 'Meet The Members' series: Vuyo Makhuvha

Before droves of people descend on a convention center for a trade show or conference, the hall must be carefully divided up to accommodate corporate show booths, walkways for attendees, spaces for administrators/security and much more. The process of defining the layout and marking it up for construction crews is often done with humans laboriously measuring and marking distances, but Lionel can do all of this for you. Once given a plan, it zooms along empty convention halls while precisely marking all of the dimensions for the schematics that you have in mind. Lionel, the floor-marking robot, was made specifically for the organizers of trade shows and conferences. Lionel isn't a robot that you'd typically think of when you imagine new applications of technology, but it fills a niche that there is strong demand for.