'...and a packet of Monster Munch please.'
Remember the good old days when an attendant would fill up your car while you sat there like Lord Muck?
Well the good times could be back thanks to a Dutch robot that does all the hard work for you.
It’s not programmed to get you a Ginster’s pasty and a Mars Bar yet so needs some work, but it will at least fill up your tank.
Dutch inventors unveiled the robot this week, which registers the car on arrival and can work out what fuel type it is.
Then a robotic arm fitted with multiple sensors extends from the pump, unscrews the cap, and starts filling up, much like a human would.
‘I was on a farm and I saw a robotic arm milking a cow. “If a robot can do that, then why can't it fill a car tank?” I thought,’ said developer and petrol station operator Nico van Staveren.
‘Drivers needn't get dirty hands or smell of petrol again.’
The designers hope to install the robot arm in a handful of Dutch filling stations by the end of this year.
It can recognise any car without a locking fuel cap and could be expanded across Europe if tests are successful.
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