Delivery robots
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After first revealing its autonomous electric delivery pod in January last year, robotics startup Nuro has now teamed up with Walmart for grocery delivery by self-driving pod in the Houston metro area.
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An engineering team at MIT has been working on new navigation software that can enable delivery robots to recognize the typical features of a front yard, and in doing so, find their way to the front door in a far more efficient manner.
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EDAG imagines a smarter, more networked form of urban mobility. Its intelligent, autonomous CityBot pairs with different modules to work all day.
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Although we've seen a lot of robots designed to deliver packages to people's homes, most of those bots are stymied by houses' front steps. Tokyo-based Amoeba Energy is developing a solution, in the form of a tracked robot that uses soft foam to easily climb up stairs and over other obstacles.
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In the near future, delivery truck drivers may be replaced by autonomous vehicles or drones that can take a package right to your door. Ford is looking to this future with a parcel-delivering robot called Digit.
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Readers will likely be well aware of Amazon's air and ground autonomous delivery robots, and you may have seen Starship's electric six-wheeled bot trundling around hundreds of cities. Now FedEx has joined the ranks with the development of the SameDay Bot.
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Amazon has today kicked off trials of ground-based robots to make deliveries. Six of the six-wheeled Scout robots will start rolling down the sidewalks of a Washington neighborhood using autonomous navigation to reach their destination.
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Back in August, Nuro partnered with supermarket retailer Kroger to make autonomous grocery deliveries in Scottsdale, Arizona. Initially, the pilot program made use of a fleet of self-driving Prius hybrids, but now the first unmanned deliveries have been made with Nuro's R1 pod.
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A couple of months ago, supermarket retailer Kroger and driverless vehicle maker Nuro announced that they were to begin testing grocery delivery using the latter's self-driving pods. Now the partnership has confirmed Scottsdale, Arizona, as the first city to run the pilot.
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In the future our streets will be crawling with autonomous vehicles of all shapes and sizes. Massive supermarket retailer Kroger is racing ahead to bring autonomous home deliveries to the market, partnering with start-up Nuro to begin testing unmanned delivery vehicles later this year.
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After years playing at the fringes of urban delivery with various pilots of its robotic couriers, Starship is now going back to school. The company has today announced a new autonomous delivery service for campuses around the US and Europe.
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When we think of the future of delivery our minds might wander toward airborne drones, but ground-based robots may play an important part in this, too. Among those is a new mail-toting machine already roaming the streets of Germany designed to do much of the heavy lifting.
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