Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.90
November 28, 2022
…to go fully autonomous for the middle mile, and Nuro is going for local deliveries, despite recent setbacks. We have to choose our battles, and each company is honing its technology to a specific area. Ottobot operates in snow, as well as indoors What is Ottonomy learning from its tests in Norway? Vijay: Oslo is one of the best testbeds for autonomous vehicles, and relatively few companies are testing there. Posten Group is one of the largest, oldest postal services in Europe. We're testing Ottobot's robustness in different weather. Our robots are delivering every day in the Oslo environs, even…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.83
December 06, 2021
…decide which service is cheaper—they might pick DoorDash or Nuro for farther orders. There's a lot of innovation. We're integrating with two large players that will help orchestrate with a large number of restaurants.” How does Ottonomy position its robotic delivery service with partners? “For the large chain restaurants or retailers, it's done directly by us, but in the case of a food court, we go to a single point of contact,” said Vijay. Ottonomy moves from demo to actual deliveries “We demonstrated that our robots were capable of navigating in a dynamic environment at the Cincinnati airport in November…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.03
December 02, 2019
…mile delivery issue and its solution. Driverless delivery start-up Nuro just got a $940 million in financing from Japan’s SoftBank Vision Fund and has partnered with Kroger to deliver the groceries and with Domino’s to deliver the pizzas. KiwiBot is providing similar services for the university campus. The University of California at Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles were two of the earliest colleges to welcome the food delivery robots, KiwiBot. Drones as enablers for the future of logistics Companies such as DHL and Amazon are testing drones for last mile delivery. DHL has already tested Parcelcopter, a…
