Before the health crisis, the company Nino Robotics was working on a project for Aéroports de Paris (ADP) and the Eiffage group. The Covid-19 has been there, the aeronautics sector has plunged. The company in Soubès (Hérault), which creates means of transport for everyone including people with reduced mobility, has started working on another product. In one year, she developed the Nino Cargo, a kind of super electric scooter.
A three-wheeled scooter
The Nino Cargo is first and foremost a three-wheeled scooter, but not just any. To traditional two-wheelers, the start-up added a motorized wheel. “It is a device that we had already created and which can be installed on classic wheelchairs “, explains Pierre Bardina, founder of Nino Robotics. On wheelchairs, this wheel makes it possible, for example, to pass small obstacles more easily.
“Physically, it is a larger scooter than those found on the market, describes the 55-year-old entrepreneur, that is, you can easily put both feet on it. And we can add a seat, which turns it into a kind of electric scooter.“
“I do not believe that this technology could frighten the elderly. On the contrary, we must stop infantilizing them. Seniors want to live in today’s world.” – Pierre Bardina, founder of the start-up Nino Robotics
Ainsi, Nino Robotics targets three audiences : people with reduced mobility, the elderly who are not comfortable with two-wheeled scooters or who prefer to use it as a scooter, and delivery men. “We can transport packages on the scooter, says Pierre Bardina.
The idea is to offer other electrical solutions to delivery people – who today use bicycles or scooters – because it is sometimes complicated for them to circulate in the hypercentre.“
80% of the materials used to make the Nino Cargo are Hérault. Nino Robotics was created in 2014. The same year, the start-up released a connected electric chair, nicknamed the Nino. Five people work in the company today.
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