The Scramble for Delivery Robots Is On and Startups Can Barely Keep Up

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These front-line delivery workers are indefatigable, immune to coronavirus and multiplying rapidly. They also happen to be robots.

Earlier this week, a pair of sleek, four-wheeled robots began trundling across the cracked pavement outside the Sleep Train Arena, the defunct former home of the Sacramento Kings, which the state of California has turned into a field Covid-19 hospital.

The robots, dubbed R2, were supposed to be delivering groceries to residents of a wealthy neighborhood in Houston, part of a rollout by the Mountain View, Calif.-based startup Nuro. Instead, like other robots the world over, they have been pressed into service delivering goods...

 

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I wonder how they wash them ...

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whats the unemployment rate in the usa now?when robots take over,quadruple that number,remember thats your future!

Lovely efforts from Robot

Another kind of jobs taken away from humans. How will it goes?

Same practice have been carried on in hospitals of Nepal to limit the contact between medical staffs and patients.

Look out for the clamor for A.I and Robots is only going to grow from here.

Dystopia comes at you fast

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