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I am Yves van den Bosch from the company
VDB Technics from Genk.
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And we developed the Drop-pit.
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The biggest problem one runs into on
the driving range is the cost.
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The cost price for picking up the balls
and washing the balls.
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In the past, you could very easily find a volunteer
to pick up the golf balls.
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That is hardly to be found anymore.
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For that, we have robots
from the brand Belrobotics.
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And subsequently we developed a Drop-pit system.
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The Drop-pit system is the section
where the robot comes to drop its balls.
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They are washed automatically and
go back to the dispenser
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via a vacuum transport system.
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The Drop-pit is a system that works fully automatically.
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There is no need to work on weekends anymore
because the robots can do that.
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The Drop-pit can automatically process the balls when
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there may be a problem or a technical malfunction.
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Can it be detected via the Belrobotics app
and does one know that there is a malfunction.
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In the past, it was a lengthy
process to pick up the balls by hand.
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But now with the Drop-pit,
this is only 10 minutes in the morning
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to check the Drop-pit and check the robots.
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The physical work of
taking out the baskets and
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and pouring them into the
ball washer is completely gone now.
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This is now being done by the robots.
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As a result, ergonomics for
the worker have improved enormously.
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The advantage of the ball picking system
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is also that even in bad weather conditions,
certainly in winter,
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the robots leave almost no tracks
compared to when we do it manually.
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we leave more tracks and the picker
picks up the balls much less.
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The robots themselves do this way better.
