Robots Take On the Final Mile

Robots Take On the Final Mile

Imagine if the next time you place an order for delivery from your favorite local restaurant, you’re greeted at your door not by a person but by an urban delivery robot. It’s an odd-looking little vehicle that resembles a cooler with wheels, but with an antenna and sensors. The top of the box pops open, and you retrieve a bag with your Mongolian beef, cashew chicken and pot stickers. The top closes, and the little robot putters away on the sidewalk.

Such autonomous delivery services are fast becoming another potential disrupter in the landscape of new technologies trying to redraw the map for final-mile urban delivery.