Autonomous grocery vans have been making deliveries in London

Fire up an app, order some groceries, and get them delivered to your door. But in one part of London, that kind of delivery is currently being made by a self-driving van. The deliveries are made possible by a vehicle called CargoPod, which was developed by Oxbotica, an autonomous-vehicle spinoff of the University of Oxford, and makes use of the online grocery retailer Ocado's infrastructure. It's a small electric vehicle decked out with lidar sensors and stereo cameras, which uses Oxbotica's autonomy software to sense obstacles and navigate roads without human intervention. On the back of the vehicle are eight pods, each with a crate that can hold three bags of groceries.