Co-op is using tiny self-driving 'Starship' robots to deliver shopping around Milton Keynes

Grocery chain Co-op is delivering shopping to customers in Milton Keynes using cute robots created by Starship Technologies. A Co-op store near Starship's headquarters in Monkston has been using the six-wheeled'ground drones' to deliver around 200 different products over the past four weeks. Customers pay the usual in-store price plus £1 ($1.36) for the delivery which goes to Starship. Earlier this month the company announced it plans to launch 1,000 bots to corporate and academic campuses in Europe and the US within the year. A Co-op member of staff - known as a'picker' - selects the items and puts them in a cooler box compartment inside the robot.