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Delivery robots are coming to a college dorm near you

Starship Technologies autonomous food delivery robots college campus last mile delivery

If you look up while walking on a college campus, you’ll most likely see a flurry of activity – students riding to class on bikes, athletes zipping around on scooters, Subway sandwiches and Frappuccinos cruising around on miniature delivery robots — hold on, what?

You read that correctly. There’s a new vehicle adding to the traffic of campus corridors: fun-sized autonomous food delivery robots, courtesy of Starship Technologies. The company is adding the University of Illinois Chicago, the...

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Grocery, new tech approaches define next phase of robotic delivery

  • Robotic delivery companies target grocery and new tech solutions, but the jury is still out on performance and business case.
  • Remote-operated Tortoise is one of the new entrants.
  • Amazon research teams are working on software that will help its autonomous robots navigate sidewalks safely

Robotic delivery companies are targeting grocery and new tech solutions as questions remain about the performance and use value of the autonomous devices.

Among the earliest players in the self-driving...

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