Starship's delivery robots have reached their largest school campus yet. Purdue students at the university's West Lafayette campus now have the option of ordering robot-delivered food that should arrive in "minutes." As at other schools, deliveries...
Washington has become the eighth state to greenlight the use of delivery robots on sidewalks and crosswalks. Governor Jay Inslee signed the bill yesterday, following support from Starship Technologies, which specializes in autonomous last-mile and lo...
The delivery robot field is still tiny, but there are signs that it's growing. Starship Technologies has announced that its autonomous courier bots have completed 50,000 commercial deliveries worldwide since its first service launched in the UK in 2...
Starship Technologies first came to our attention when it unveiled its sweet cooler on wheels autonomous robots meant to deliver food and other items to your door. The company is back with a new reveal, and this time out it has a semi-autonomous system that is the result of a tie up with Mercedes-Benz. The result is Robovan.
A human driver pilots the modified Sprinter van into a neighborhood, but rather than getting out of the van to deliver the packages, the driver parks and the autonomous coolers roll out to deliver orders.
The van holds eight of Starship’s delivery robots, and a number of bins filled with cargo. The robots autonomously ride in and out of the van, though it’s unclear how items are loaded from the bins into the robots at this point.
Starship says that the system is much more efficient than a human driver is. Whereas the typical human might deliver 180 packages per nine-hour shift, with many of those seemingly kicked to your door, the Robovan could deliver 400 per nine-hour shift. Plus the bots won’t break your stuff or throw it those last six feet.
Starship's delivery robots have reached their largest school campus yet. Purdue students at the university's West Lafayette campus now have the option of ordering robot-delivered food that should arrive in "minutes." As at other schools, deliveries...
Washington has become the eighth state to greenlight the use of delivery robots on sidewalks and crosswalks. Governor Jay Inslee signed the bill yesterday, following support from Starship Technologies, which specializes in autonomous last-mile and lo...
The delivery robot field is still tiny, but there are signs that it's growing. Starship Technologies has announced that its autonomous courier bots have completed 50,000 commercial deliveries worldwide since its first service launched in the UK in 2...
