Williams Advanced Engineering, Aerofoil Energy, and Inovo Partner on Robotic Supermarket Refrigerator Efficiency Test Program
OXFORDSHIRE, England — Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), Aerofoil Energy, and Inovo Robotics are working together on an innovative, new research and development (R&D) program that uses robots to further improve the energy efficiency of supermarket fridges.
Based at WAE’s site in Grove, Oxfordshire, the pioneering new initiative sees Inovo’s collaborative robots — called ‘cobots’ — repeatedly opening and closing the doors of test fridges to emulate real-world supermarket trading conditions. These fridges feature the revolutionary F1-inspired Aerofoil shelf edge technology along with Aerofoil Energy’s new “Vortex” energy efficient fridge technologies.