And if you can't fly a package in on a drone, you can crawl along the sidewalk to make delivery with a robot that looks like a picnic ice chest. Amazon is trying them all. Will they need clearance? Good details at the link.
How Amazon’s delivery robots will navigate your sidewalk
Frederic Lardinois@fredericl in TechCrunch
Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Scout sidewalk delivery robot. At the time, details were sparse, except for the fact that the company had started to make deliveries in a neighborhood in Washington State. Today, at Amazon’s re:Mars conference, I sat down with Sean Scott, the VP in charge of Scout, to talk about how his team built the robot, how it finds its way around and what its future looks like.
These relatively small blue robots could be roaming a sidewalk near you soon, though as of now, Amazon isn’t quite ready to talk about when and where it will expand its network from its single neighborhood to other areas..... "
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