The COVID-19 health crisis in much of the U.S. seems likely to hasten the adoption of self-guided robots and drones for goods transportation. They require disinfection, which companies like Kiwibot, ...

Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Scout sidewalk delivery robot. At the time, details were sparse, except for the fact that the company had started to make deliveries in a neighborhood in ...

Robots might be taking over the world, and the pandemic could be hastening the takeover. But if you ask the people at Starship Technologies, that’s a good thing. Starship, with headquarters in San ...

Amazon has used drones to deliver packages, but according to an internal report cited by The Information, the retailer is planning to test out more human-like autonomous delivery methods. Namely, ...

Ask most of the people developing autonomous vehicles how robo-cars will change the world, and most will say safety—more than a million people die on the road every year, and self-driving cars could ...

It’s supposed to be a goofy neighborhood mascot rather than a robot overlord–or worse, a loathed symbol of Silicon Valley excess. The “last mile” of delivery is the hardest. It’s cheap to fly freight ...

Serve Robotics Inc., a startup that builds sidewalk robots for last-mile delivery tasks, is going public. San Francisco-based Serve Robotics announced the move this morning. In conjunction, the ...

So, you're hit with a craving for a mouthwatering Shake Shack burger. Instead of jumping in your car and braving the traffic, you simply grab your phone and place an order through an app. But here's ...

If you live in the Swiss municipality of Regensdorf, you may soon be getting packages delivered to your doorstep by a robot.

Not even flexible, freelance jobs in the on-demand economy will be saved from the siege of automation. Starship Technologies is putting its self-driving delivery robots to work in the US. Specifically ...

FedEx is the latest company to join the delivery robot craze. The company said Wednesday it will test a six-wheeled, autonomous robot called the SameDay Bot in Memphis, Tenn. this summer and plans to ...