University of Texas at Dallas researchers found that last-mile delivery networks will become more decentralized and the delivery speed of the drones will increase as the technology matures.
Tiny Mile teams with foodora for robotic food delivery in Toronto
Toronto – Tiny Mile, creators of the “Geoffrey” food delivery robot, today announced a partnership with foodora to provide on-demand delivery in Canada. Initial plans are to pilot the delivery robots in Toronto, but the companies said expansion to other Canadian locations is planned. The Geoffrey robot, named after Geoffrey Hinton, an acclaimed computer scientist…
Birth of a unicorn: Nuro gets $940M from SoftBank for driverless deliveries
Nuro.ai, which is working on self-driving vehicles, said today that it has received $940 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund. This marks a major push in the ground delivery space and another move by SoftBank to take leadership in automation. Other investors in Mountain View, Calif.-based Nuro include Greylock Partners and Gaorong Capital. The…
How neural networks help delivery robots navigate
This article was republished with permission from Starship Technologies’ blog. Starship Technologies is building a fleet of robots to deliver packages locally on demand. To successfully achieve this, the robots must be safe, polite and quick. But how do you get there with low computational resources and without expensive sensors such as LIDARs? This is…
Starship delivery robots finding work on campuses
Starship Technologies, a delivery robot startup founded in 2015 by two Skype co-founders, is launching its autonomous delivery service at corporate and academic campuses in Europe and the US. For the last three months, Starship’s six-wheeled robots have been delivering food and office supplies around software company Intuit’s 4.3-acre campus in Mountain View, California. Ahti…
TeleRetail Delivery Robot a Mobile Shopping Trunk
Pedestrians all over the world have met them on the pavement already: autonomous delivery robots. Boxes on wheels, equipped with sensors, intelligent software and powerful motors. Developed to travel from A to B autonomously and reliably, without obstructing or endangering anyone. Although the vehicles spotted are prototypes, it is quite possible that autonomous delivery robots…