In eastern Finland, we showed Eira X among several established UGV manufacturers from across Europe. We observed that we are all tackling different parts of front-line A-to-B logistics. Many optimize for the last hundred meters of extremely hard terrain, while they still struggling. That confirmed our direction: we don’t want to trade energy efficiency and a much higher price for those last meters.
We also saw that competitors are very hardware-heavy, and even established companies lacked basic remote-operations features, such as safety behaviour on a bad connection.
Our remote ops performed well and we believe we have much more to come
We tested our remote operations over longer distances. Glass-to-glass latency stayed under 200 ms, with 50–60 ms on the network, over Finnish cellular and Starlink combined. Some competitors had twice our latency and much worse bitrate control. Connectivity deep in the eastern Finnish forest was a challenge for everyone, us included. After the demo we started working at once pushing that 200 ms lower and was pushing 160 ms. Much of which was just tuning our settings that we had set a bit too carefully for robustness.
Somehow we had found ourselves freezing cold doing last minute fixes,
