Tuesday, November 3, 2015

CITY AM -- A bright, robotic future

CITY AM -- A bright, robotic future

The Dispatch & Delivery Robots will be followed by armed, Enforcement & Security Robots whose remit will be to Taser any yobs/ thieves/ tramps that might try to damage/ steal/ derail the delivery robots.

I like the idea.

The aim should be to make humans entirely redundant. They get in the way.

BM

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Forget delivery vans or even using your legs to walk to the shops for that matter. The founders of Skype plan to shake-up the grocery delivery market with a fleet of self-driving robots that will be able to drop groceries on your doorstep within 30 minutes.

Starship Technologies, founded by Skype’s Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, has invented a robot that can whizz down pavements at a speed of around four miles per hour with up two shopping bags or parcels (20lbs) stored inside of it. [...]

http://www.cityam.com/227817/skype-founders-take-on-24-hour-delivery-market-with-launch-of-self-driving-robot-?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Email&utm_campaign=151103_CMU

 


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