Gadgetory

imagine if the next time you ordered a pizza instead of a person bringing it to your house a robot brought it to your house it's closer than you think this is the starship it's made by a company called starship technologies which is founded by some of the cofounders of Skype it's a self-driving delivery robot and the plan is to get it in the hands of small businesses all around the world so that they have a low-cost delivery option now we've heard a lot about the future of delivery lately Google's got a patent on self-driving delivery trucks Amazon has been testing its drones but this has made more for local delivery something more in the two-mile range as the top speed of 4 miles an hour and it uses cameras in the front and in the sides for collision avoidance so that when it's going down the sidewalk it won't run into people it'll actually stop and in some cases move out of the way so that people can get by it and it can continue on its way so it's flashy and ideas a delivery drone but it seems a lot safer now this is just a prototype and starship technologies have only driven at about 700 miles so far but they're already going into limited production on 12 more models and they plan to drive 20,000 more miles in the next six months starting in the UK and then bringing it to the US can also carry more than a drone can right now - this thing can fit about 20 pounds worth of stuff in it which starship says it about the weight of two grocery bags but what's really awesome about this idea is that it can play a big part in what's bound to be a revolution in how we send and receive stuff all around the world that all sounds great but starship technologies is gonna have to do a lot more testing before we get there and they're gonna have to have infer come a lot of regulatory hurdles just like Google and Amazon are trying to overcome right now so until then this robot is just a dream and you're stuck with your regular pizza delivery guy