This robot may help you schlep the groceries

Ed Baig shows off Gita, a prototype indoor or outdoor robot, designed to help businesses or people carry bags or deliver items. Apparently this robot follows people around and helps them carry things. NEW YORK--There are numerous high-profile efforts to build autonomous self-driving cars. The bright human minds behind Gita have a different sort of vehicle in mind, a large, roundish follow-me robot on wheels that can schlep our stuff while it navigates urban sidewalks and other tight spaces. A 75-pound Gita prototype certainly made quite an impression on passersby as it rolled down New York's busy Madison Avenue. Several people stopped to gawk at Gita and snap pictures during a demonstration, and to ask: What is it?