Nearly 800 sensors feed data back to an operations center that helps the Oracle Red Bull crew make split-second decisions. Verstappen's F1 car is equipped with close to 800 sensors that constantly feed data to his racing team. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Formula One is unquestionably fast. The motorsport's multi-million-dollar cars achieve speeds over 210 miles per hour on tracks that bend and twist wildly.

'Delivery robots will happen': Skype co-founder on his fast-growing venture Starship C ity dwellers around the world have long been used to rapid delivery of takeaway food and, increasingly, groceries. But what they are not entirely used to - yet - is the sight of a robot pulling up to their front door. The co-founder of Skype, Ahti Heinla, believes his new venture is about to change that. Heinla is the chief executive of Starship Technologies, a startup that, he claimed, is able to operate deliveries run by trundling robots at a small profit - and cheaper than a human delivery driver, even in small towns and villages where delivery has not previously been viable. "We've solved everything that there is to solve," Heinla said over lunch at a London hotel.

Not everyone thinks that way. He was compelled to take action after noticing unsold seats on his US arena tour last year. "Five hundred seats would be completely empty because they were 200 a ticket," he told Music Week. "I'd have 1,000 kids outside the venue who couldn't afford to come in and I was like, 'Something's got to change here.'" But the festival didn't go completely to plan.

Answer Set Programming (asp) has demonstrated its potential as an effective tool for concisely representing and reasoning about real-world problems. In this paper, we present an application in which asp has been successfully used in the context of dynamic traffic distribution for urban networks, within a more general framework devised for solving such a real-world problem. In particular, asp has been employed for the computation of the "optimal" routes for all the vehicles in the network. We also provide an empirical analysis of the performance of the whole framework, and of its part in which asp is employed, on two European urban areas, which shows the viability of the framework and the contribution asp can give.

Delivery robots have been spotted forming an orderly queue to use a pedestrian crossing - with one asking a passer-by to press the button for them. Pictures showed The Starship Technologies food delivery robots patiently waiting to cross the road as part of its new trial in Cambridge this month. Cyclist Naomi Davies spotted the group of robots on the pavement and said they waited for three light changes before one crossed the road. While waiting in line, one of the robots asked a woman to press the button for them. Starship said the robots were not'shy' so were happy to ask strangers for help when they needed it.

Avoiding congestion and controlling traffic in urban scenarios is becoming nowadays of paramount importance due to the rapid growth of our cities' population and vehicles. The effective control of urban traffic as a means to mitigate congestion can be beneficial in an economic, environmental and health way. In this paper, a framework which allows to efficiently simulate and optimize traffic flow in a large roads' network with hundreds of vehicles is presented. The framework leverages on an Answer Set Programming (ASP) encoding to formally describe the movements of vehicles inside a network. Taking advantage of the ability to specify optimization constraints in ASP and the off-the-shelf solver Clingo, it is then possible to optimize the routes of vehicles inside the network to reduce a range of relevant metrics (e.g., travel times or emissions). Finally, an analysis on real-world traffic data is performed, utilizing the state-of-the-art Urban Mobility Simulator (SUMO) to keep track of the state of the network, test the correctness of the solution and to prove the efficiency and capabilities of the presented solution.

In normal driving you still have blind spots around you that cause accidents. You also can't anticipate what's coming in terms of traffic, pedestrians, cyclists.

A distant future involving robotic package deliveries is now very much a reality. Advances in robotics, GPS tracking, automation, and navigation now mean you might not find a delivery person at your door with your package. You might find a delivery robot instead. With semi-autonomous robots beginning to enter the world, here's a look at how delivery robots work. A delivery robot is an automated robot that brings your delivery directly to your door.

In a restaurant landscape where lean profit margins are getting even slimmer due to the necessary COVID-19 safety measures of distancing, staying afloat is an increasingly difficult challenge. Small wonder, then, that some operators are using whatever means they can to stand out from their competition. Robot waiters, although not a new phenomenon, are making headlines around the world again, but this time with a socially distanced twist. At Claypot Rice, a Chinese restaurant in Calgary, robot greeters and servers chat with guests, take orders and run food from the kitchen. These are typically three distinct roles performed by humans, a fact not lost on owner Alex Guo.

A robot courier supermarket delivery service is being rolled out. The tech company Starship Technologies is delivering online purchases from one Tesco store and a Co-op outlet, both in Milton Keynes, to customers within a two mile radius. The robot buggies are each capable of carrying up to 10kg in weight and they can negotiate the streets on their own to deliver purchases to the door within 15 minutes. Starship technologies has rolled-out the'autonomous package delivery' service in the town of Milton Keynes after trials in the US and London They bypass the need for cars, vans and bikes and are a more immediate and practical solution than the drones being tested by Amazon and others. The autonomous vehicles travel on pavements and have a maximum speed of just 4mph.