"Three men, three machines - watering every day, there had to be an improvement," is how Christian Ortmans begins the WDR report about his cemetery and the ultimate solution in the form of Innok Robotics' autonomous RAINOS watering robot, which he affectionately calls Gießbert.
Since Ortmans has the RAINOS at the cemetery in Radevorwald (NRW), he can once again deploy his staff for activities that create value for him in the truest sense of the word - such as grave maintenance or planting graves. And the employees at the cemetery really like that. Nobody there wants to do without the autonomous helper anymore.
Visitors also react positively to the robot. They don't normally get to see it because it waters the graves at night. This protects the plants, saves a lot of water and, as in Radevormwald, probably also scares away uninvited guests.
Click here for the full WDR report (german language).
Here you can find all media reports about Innok Robotics and the RAINOS. Including TV reports from Tagesschau and Sat 1.
By the way, several RAINOS robots have already been given the name Gießbert. Christian Ortmans also had an alternative in mind, but it was ruled out: "I also really liked Giesela. But the first chairwoman of the reformed cemetery at the time was called Gisela. And she didn't find it quite so funny", says Ortmans with a grin. "Now it's just a Gießbert."
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