Delivery Robots With AI On the March - AI Trends

Delivery robots incorporating AI are on the march, being deployed more widely on the ground, sometimes crowding sidewalks. Delivery robot providers include Starship Technologies, a startup created by Janus Friis and Ahti Heinla, founders of Skype. The company offers a general-purpose home delivery robot that today is an array of cameras and GPS sensors, but in the future will include microphones, speaker, and the ability via AI-driven natural language processing, to talk to customers. Since 2016, Starship has carried out 50,000 delivers in over 100 cities across 20 countries, according to an account in SingularityHub written by Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, the founder of Singularity University and the founder and executive chairman of the XPrize Foundation. Another startup delivery provider is Nuro, co-founded by Jiajun Zhu, an engineer who helped develop Google's self-driving car.