Amazon to launch robots that unlock doors to deliver items

Amazon is designing box-shaped robot'postmen' that can open smartlocks on doors and deliver items while the you are out of the house. The move would see'autonomous ground vehicles (AGV) transport parcels from delivery trucks and place them either at your front door or inside your home. Amazon envisages the bots being owned by a group of neighbours or a building block, where it could charge itself in a communal areas such as a garage or lobby. Details of the automated delivery drones suggest they may have access to Amazon Key, or a similar service. This is a lock and camera system that users control remotely to allow couriers to slip goods into their houses. Amazon has published a US patent for'autonomous ground vehicles' [AGV] that can transport parcels from trucks and place them either at the front door of someone's home, or inside.