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I just watched a story on a business network regarding robotics. It was specifically on the robots discussed in this article linked below.
This style of robot is presented as a variety that can deliver in neighborhoods with no human oversight. Mechanical delivery devices to replace the Dominoes driver or grocery or restaurant delivery folks.
This particular style of robot seems custom made to be abused by miscreants inclined to abuse them.
In the immediate future time frame though, I can definitely see this employed in Fulfillment Centers like Amazon or Walmart warehouses or as delivery modes for room services in hotels.
Purpose built robots to do specific tasks are coming very, VERY soon to employers near all of us. They will obviously be superior to human employees in almost every way.
I would expect that in the very near future, robots will be shopping for computer received grocery orders,
rolling themselves to the loading dock and loading themselves onto robotic delivery vehicles
and then, when the delivery vehicle robot drives them to the address, rolling from the delivery robot vehicles to the front doors of customers to drop the delivered the goods.
This morning, my wife submitted an order to Kroger for groceries. A human read the order and hand picked the items ordered. A human delivered the order. Kroger is paying humans an average wage of about $12.00/hour.
A robot can work 168 hours per week. 168 X $12 = $2016 per week. That's 4.2 FTE's. A robot needs no vacation, does not call in sick, is not a union member and NEVER files a complaint with HR.
Cost? Not listed in the article. What if it's about $6000. Throw in the maintenance agreement for a total of $7000. A good robot sounds like a bargain.
Human beings walking around, shopping in Grocery stores may soon be as quaint as hard copy newspapers have become.
The automated teller is expanding its reach.
Serve began rolling out its next generation of robots in December and says it recently completed its first delivery at Level 4 autonomy, which SAE defines as a system that can drive autonomously as long as certain conditions are met and will not require a human to take over driving. The startup's robots currently have L4 capabilities in some neighborhoods in Los Angeles, such as Hollywood, where Serve has been operating since 2018, Kashani said.
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This style of robot is presented as a variety that can deliver in neighborhoods with no human oversight. Mechanical delivery devices to replace the Dominoes driver or grocery or restaurant delivery folks.
This particular style of robot seems custom made to be abused by miscreants inclined to abuse them.
In the immediate future time frame though, I can definitely see this employed in Fulfillment Centers like Amazon or Walmart warehouses or as delivery modes for room services in hotels.
Purpose built robots to do specific tasks are coming very, VERY soon to employers near all of us. They will obviously be superior to human employees in almost every way.
I would expect that in the very near future, robots will be shopping for computer received grocery orders,
rolling themselves to the loading dock and loading themselves onto robotic delivery vehicles
and then, when the delivery vehicle robot drives them to the address, rolling from the delivery robot vehicles to the front doors of customers to drop the delivered the goods.
This morning, my wife submitted an order to Kroger for groceries. A human read the order and hand picked the items ordered. A human delivered the order. Kroger is paying humans an average wage of about $12.00/hour.
A robot can work 168 hours per week. 168 X $12 = $2016 per week. That's 4.2 FTE's. A robot needs no vacation, does not call in sick, is not a union member and NEVER files a complaint with HR.
Cost? Not listed in the article. What if it's about $6000. Throw in the maintenance agreement for a total of $7000. A good robot sounds like a bargain.
Human beings walking around, shopping in Grocery stores may soon be as quaint as hard copy newspapers have become.
The automated teller is expanding its reach.
Serve Robotics' new autonomous sidewalk delivery robots don't require human assist
Serve Robotics, an Uber spinout that builds sidewalk delivery robots, is deploying its next generation of robots that are capable of completing some commercial deliveries without a human in the loop, according to the startup. Most companies in the industry, like Coco and Kiwibot, lean on remote...
Serve began rolling out its next generation of robots in December and says it recently completed its first delivery at Level 4 autonomy, which SAE defines as a system that can drive autonomously as long as certain conditions are met and will not require a human to take over driving. The startup's robots currently have L4 capabilities in some neighborhoods in Los Angeles, such as Hollywood, where Serve has been operating since 2018, Kashani said.
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