But will it ask for a tip?
An artificially intelligent, self-driving delivery vehicle is the most recent in robotic technology soon coming to streets near you — whilst other autonomous automakers face probes over dangers with their vehicles.
Tech company Vayu Robotics’ entry within the running is a sky-blue coloured, mini Volkswagen van-looking machine — able to driving as much as 20 miles per hour while lugging as much as 100 kilos of products.
On Tuesday, an unnamed “large e-commerce player” inked a deal to deploy 2,500 of the six-foot-long “Vayu One” robots, the corporate with senior leadership coming from Apple and Lyft announced.
A video demonstration of the self-driving device depicts a store employee stocking up the blue bot — it followed her down the aisles — before sending groceries en path to a customer’s home, navigating potholes, crosswalks and all.
Occasionally, a side door opens as Vayu One’s mechanical arm leaves the products streetside.
The large-to-do over this particular piece of tech is that its AI model is reportedly sharp enough to eliminate the necessity for industry-common “light detection and ranging” (Lidar) that pre-maps the Earth’s surface and texture.
Vayu One “operates autonomously without pre-mapping the roads it intends to drive on,” per the corporate.
The bot also “is able to navigating inside stores, on city streets, and unloading packages on driveways or porches.”
CEO Anand Gopalan said this latest technology has provided answers to problems that “plagued” the event of delivery bots for greater than a decade.
Now, firms can “finally create an answer that may actually be deployed at scale and enable the low cost transport of products in all places,” he said.
But will it ask for a tip?
An artificially intelligent, self-driving delivery vehicle is the most recent in robotic technology soon coming to streets near you — whilst other autonomous automakers face probes over dangers with their vehicles.
Tech company Vayu Robotics’ entry within the running is a sky-blue coloured, mini Volkswagen van-looking machine — able to driving as much as 20 miles per hour while lugging as much as 100 kilos of products.
On Tuesday, an unnamed “large e-commerce player” inked a deal to deploy 2,500 of the six-foot-long “Vayu One” robots, the corporate with senior leadership coming from Apple and Lyft announced.
A video demonstration of the self-driving device depicts a store employee stocking up the blue bot — it followed her down the aisles — before sending groceries en path to a customer’s home, navigating potholes, crosswalks and all.
Occasionally, a side door opens as Vayu One’s mechanical arm leaves the products streetside.
The large-to-do over this particular piece of tech is that its AI model is reportedly sharp enough to eliminate the necessity for industry-common “light detection and ranging” (Lidar) that pre-maps the Earth’s surface and texture.
Vayu One “operates autonomously without pre-mapping the roads it intends to drive on,” per the corporate.
The bot also “is able to navigating inside stores, on city streets, and unloading packages on driveways or porches.”
CEO Anand Gopalan said this latest technology has provided answers to problems that “plagued” the event of delivery bots for greater than a decade.
Now, firms can “finally create an answer that may actually be deployed at scale and enable the low cost transport of products in all places,” he said.
