Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.72
June 15, 2021
…company in March, and Dominos is testing Nuro for pizza delivery in Houston. Nuro said that its collaboration with FedEx is a major step in entering parcel logistics. The exponential growth of e-commerce has accelerated the demand for reliable, autonomous solutions throughout all stages of the supply chain, the partners said. “Working with FedEx—the global leader in logistics—is an incredible opportunity to rethink every aspect of local delivery,” said Cosimo Leipold, head of partnerships at Nuro. “This multi-year commitment will allow us to truly collaborate and bring Nuro’s powerful technology to more people in new ways, and eventually reach large-scale…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.33
April 26, 2021
…area around it.” “To use another analogy, a small pizza box is 1 sq. ft.,” he said. “At 2,000 feet-per-second coverage or one weed in 2,000 boxes, the robot could spray an area of four to six boxes rather than the whole area. That's not only beneficial to the bottom line but also sustainability.” The system enables a farmer to control the amount of nutrients sprayed, droplet size, and even distance from the plants by automatically adjusting the volume, pressure, and height of the boom, which is attached to the sprayer and can measure up to 120 feet wide with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.10
April 21, 2021
…launched Version 4.0 of its eponymous robot and partnered with Segway. Chipotle invested in Nuro last month, and Domino's Pizza is testing deliveries with the Nuro R2 in Houston. In January, Starship Technologies raised $14 million and added more college campuses to the locations it serves. The company said it has completed 1 million deliveries and has partnered with DoorDash.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.43
March 24, 2021
…we're looking for partners like Lowe's, Home Depot, or Pizza Hut as potential users of the robot,” he said. “So if we're not using the robot at a particular time, maybe someone else can use it to make deliveries to their customers.” “How do you chop away to a core MVP use case that makes good sense?” he said. “Starship is doing a good job of that—they're focused on universities, where you know the landscape and are dealing with more tech-savvy folks.” “FedEx is also testing drones with Google Wing in Christianburg, Va., which is a small town where we're…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.50
December 02, 2019
…to expand it on larger scale. FedEx collaborated with Pizza Hut to test FedEx’s SameDay Bot for pizza delivery. We can also see some similar trends related to delivery robots which are working towards last 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.12
September 26, 2019
…“30-minutes or free” standard that used to be a pizza delivery promise. If you could begin deliveries only blocks from your customer's door instead of miles, that time to order completion could be drastically reduced. Again, that's where the idea of local distribution hubs solves e-commerce challenges. When the order starts its journey three blocks away, there's no need to wait until the end of the day for delivery. Rising Cost of Conventional DC Lands We are running out of space for large distribution centers. Major metropolitan areas have for years seen DCs circled around the outskirts, clustered near major…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.92
May 23, 2019
…can actually do. Ordering in? You could get a pizza delivered to your door in ten minutes. Shopping online? Amazon’s 30-minute package delivery could get consumer products to you in record time. In theory, this is the future of the transportation and logistics industry. Yet when we go outside, the skies aren’t filled with a swarm of drones whirring above us as they carry packages to our doorsteps. Why not? The technology exists to make drone deliveries feasible, but there are plenty of impediments - regulations on airspace, package weight, the need for certified pilots - that prevent large-scale adoption…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.71
February 27, 2019
…FedEx is collaborating with companies such as AutoZone, Lowe’s, Pizza Hut, Target, Walgreens and Walmart to help assess retailers’ autonomous same-day and last-mile delivery needs. On average, more than 60 percent of merchants’ customers live within three miles of a store location, demonstrating the opportunity for on-demand, hyper-local delivery services. “The FedEx SameDay Bot is an innovation designed to change the face of local delivery and help retailers efficiently address their customers’ rising expectations,” said Brie Carere, executive vice president and chief marketing and communications officer for FedEx. “The bot represents a milestone in our ongoing mission to solve the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.71
January 23, 2019
…rise. Evidence of robots building houses and designing rocket parts, to robot chefs that are cooking dinner and making pizzas, are on the rise. In 2019, we will be entering the age of automated kitchens and unmanned robots, all designed to improve efficiency and real-time customer experience—changing the future of industrial automation.
