A new wave of delivery robots could transform the way goods are delivered – provided they survive their first contact with the greatest nemesis they’ll ever face: teenagers, says Jack Roberts in his Truck Tech blog.
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Boxbot and OnTrac say their new partnership will test an automated parcel delivery system that reimagines the way e-commerce packages and other shipments are delivered.
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Digit is an experimental, walking delivery robot, designed by Ford and Agility Robotics to work in conjunction with automated delivery vehicles.
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Tech giant Honeywell announced a new automated robotic solution for unloading truck trailers and shipping containers at distribution centers.
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FedEx has begun evaluation trials of its new SameDay Bot robotic delivery system in Memphis, Tennessee, in partnership with high-profile customers.
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Ryder System has joined forces with new technology suppliers to showcase smart warehouse operations, such as robotics; autonomous vehicles and drones; sensors and automatic identification tools; and wearable technology.
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Dog-like robots could one day be delivering packages from driverless vans, as demonstrated in a vision of the future presented by Continental at the CES electronics show in Las Vegas.
Read More →A science writer in MIT's Technology Review is worried angry truckers will one day hack or "bedazzle" autonomous vehicle systems to deliberately cause accidents, Jack Roberts pumps the brakes on that idea in his Truck Tech blog.
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The Huntington, Ind., campus of Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems has pledged $1,000 to local high school students in a statewide Robotics competition and an additional $2,000 to support the entire event.
Read More →In his Passing Zone blog, HDT's David Cullen ponders whether self-driving trucks will just take away a job that very few people want anymore.
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