Starship Delivery Robots in Milton Keynes
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2019
- Starship's robots are delivering to the residents of Milton Keynes, UK seven days a week, 365 days a year. After our one year anniversary of operations in the city, we decided to ask residents what they thought about our service and how they use it. The delivery robots have now completed over 50,000 commercial deliveries globally and traveled over 200,000 miles.
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Good idea, but it wouldn't last five minutes in London. Kids would kick it, people would steal the food ... it would get trashed. What we would need is a weaponised version.
People do all those things in Milton Keynes as well. A starship guy told out to watch out for him recently as he had to retrieve one of these guys stolen by a guy who lived in a tent.
@@Danielmountford_ MK is generally quite a safe place tho
@@georgedowns4034 I know, I live there. I've lived in London too. Seen kids kick them in MK as well
It's awesome that we get to use these during lock down. I've been ill for 13 years and i have a suppressed immune system so this really does minimize the risk of me being exposed.
Does it? This robot delivered to me first and I covered it in bacteria just before it delivered to you.. enjoy.
@@TheSmisterr you're odd
@@mayburchall639 odd for writing the truth? You will soon see what I’m talking about when your job at McDonald’s is taken by a robot. What is odd is that you commented saying “you’re odd” that is very odd indeed.
@@TheSmisterr I hope this doesn't happen to me. I'd be very sad to lose my dream job like that. I'd be happy for the robot though!!! Its a great job. I've been happy for the last 23years working there.❤
Hope you are doing well man :)
this is simply amazing, I see them day by day 'working' their asses around the broughton area down in Milton Keynes. They always busy and they never stop haha.
We need these in Glasgow ASAP!!!!
I would get emotionlly attached to these little guys way too quickly.
We have some here in Northampton (Duston). They're great fun to watch especially crossing the roads. We can't help anthropomorphising them and feeling sorry for them when they can't get across easily.
It's a robot but I can't help but worry about it all on its own. Lol
These robots should be equipped with something so they can send a signal to the crossing instead of relying on pedestrians most of the time 😊
These should be available all over the country, not just Milton Keynes
Had to stop my artic to let one of these cross the road in Brinklow, Milton Keynes.
Utterly amazing and I want one to bring me food 😂😂
Benjibear Day careful what you wish for it’ll be a robot artic next! Stupidity at its finest wise up the future needs to be human not robots!
@@TheSmisterr They will not replace lorry drivers until they devise software that makes robots drive side by side for miles on end, for no reason at all.
@@MrDickBills is that not exactly what we’re heading for?
@@MrDickBills www.google.com/amp/s/www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/94746/driverless-trucks-to-be-tested-on-uk-roads%3famp
@@TheSmisterr You are spot on.
People have no clue whats coming.
They’re in Northampton but I’m waiting for them to come to my local co-op
I'm investing in this company in the future
I wonder how long it will be until delivery robots are used here in sweden.
Actually they are being made over the sea in Tallinn, Estonia.
Sweden is probably the closest place for Estonia to export them, so why haven't you already taken them in? :D
RIP Sweden
We will see how good they are when it snows.
They use them here in my town at Purdue University. They work really well and they get around in the snow amazingly well. They do have a tendency to stop and think while in the middle of an intersection and it's never a good thing from what I'm told. Stories of trucks dragging them underneath and starships going along missing wheels are common here. I suppose they carry insurance as the rest of us do 🤪
Or how they navigate around the long Ques outside the dole office .
😅😅😅
I’m sure they would operate fine in the snow with the right tractions on the wheels it’s England not fucking Alaska lol
They are so cute
They float too and there's plenty of water in Milton Keynes.
the humble darlek has come a long way
Very interested to see into the hardware of one of these. Been using alot of LiDAR recently in My own robotics project and definitely wanting to look into more autonomous robotics.
I bet if you could obtain an ecu from Elon Musks Tesla and a compatible gps you could incorporate it into any delivery system moving under let's say 120kph speeds. I'd think a heavy drone would be perfect!
What's the security like on these and what's stopping people taking the whole thing and taking what ever is in it?
It's got like a lock
@@nu3ero 'like a lock'?
So what is it then?
Pretty sure it calls the police on you if you try nicking it
It explodes.
There is a 360 degrees camera that’s set around the robot and it records everything pretty sure it has also a memory for saving footages for from where it went through and where it’s currently going. I’ve watched some documentaries about this thing and the security is just genius. Plus you’ll never gonna open if you are not the actual customer because it requires a code for a designated order.
If this was in my area people would be taking them to bits and taking the orders out lol
What a nice benefit area lad
@@steveborn7500 😄 yeah mate it's a dump
With the amount of anti-theft measures built in on them, I highly doubt it. Unless those douchebags want to serve jail time for a small bag of groceries.
This would be an absolute boon to my mum in Clacton. She's disabled and housebound, and has had trouble getting Tesco delivery slots during this pandemic.
what makes you think these would be any different? they're certainly not going to bring you the weekly shop.. you could use deliveroo or just-eat for the exact same but human service.
@@TheSmisterrwhat’s your problem with these? You seem like a very bitter and angry little man.
Amazon and fedex have also rolled out their delivery robot
try doing this in London. Should be interesting to see what people do to them.
Sounds like an empty threat lad
And if not wow your so hard kicking in a harmless bot
@@steveborn7500 These should not come to Philly -- which is where the HitchBot (the peaceful robot that traveled cross-country across Germany, The Netherlands, Canada and 300 miles of the USA) was destroyed within like an hour of arriving, and to the this day they haven't found the head.
If I see one of these I'm fucking smashing it up
Broz has not released in in US
For heaven sake when are we going to get these in Birmingham Hodge Hill , it must use service
Whilst I can see these being good if you are unable (for instance because of health/mobility issues),to get to shops and need something quickly, the reality is that this is an expensive way to get your groceries. The local shops that use these are expensive anyway and then the prices are more expensive on the App, and on top of that you pay £1.49- £1.99 delivery.
I don't think they are compulsory yet. 😉
As a guy who can barely walk 20 meters nowadays, I'd love to use those. 'Would most likely be cheaper then paying someone to make the grocery runs for me and having more small runs would make me less dependant on long-life foods.
Okay, that's pretty frikkin' neat.
I love this starship
Яндекс ?
They remind me of a classic song by kraftwerk.
Just saw 1 in Cambridge
I have never ever shopped in coop (i have only 1 shop around and anyway far enough so i need to drive). If they launched those in my city, I would.
I think this looks really interesting and there are a lot of people who will benefit from this, but there are a fair number of people who are starting to say "I don't even have to leave my house". Just saying that we're probably going to turn into the humans on the spaceship from WALL-E if we accept that attitude for all of our activities...
no one does have to leave the house as it is, these are nothing more than a gimmick
6 kmh ? Waiting time 40-50min?? Its great idea, but waiting almost 1 hour to get food... idk
I saw some of these visiting mk the other day and I was bewildered at everyone acting like there wasn't a little robot going about it's business lol
These robots need cameras all around. I commute by bike and even if I am very careful with passing them, some situations are unavoidably quite dangerous.
They stop dead if I go anywhere near them while out running.
@@TheRip72 There's a Tesco express I go to regularly and I love watching these negotiate the busy road.
Be vannak kamerázva rendesen. A legkisebb zavar esetén megállnak. Innentől csakis rajtad múlik.
@@PIPIPISTA Nekem nagyon nem ez a tapasztalatom. Én jót röhögtem amikor 2 ilyen egymással szembe rohant és egymásnak ütköztek teljes sebességgel. :D Akkorát csattantak, hogy még most is mosolygok, anikor eszembe jut az eset. És ez pár hónapja volt, tehát még csak nem is akkor amikor még nagyon kezdőcipőben jártak.
my house is in the thumbnail
THIS is the future. I was advocating delivery robots more than 20 years ago. But not many people were interested (and from some of the comments below, some are not interested now).
Y’all should put an anti theft code on it then give it on the website mine recently got swiped
Just like the fat blobs on the spaceship from wall e.
Yea it's amazing I sit in the house all day working on my computer, and then when I finally get the chance to walk to the shop I don't, I just sit on my backside and let the drone do it!
Absolutely bang on. Look how the man is omg hiw lazy
Agreed. Bloke's chosen "lifestyle" could do with the addition of a walk to the grocery store.
Can't wait to see the faces of alll those happy customers when their jobs gets replaced by robots.
Exactly!
Damn it's the rise of skynet lol
In this case it's your job replaced as a shop visiting costumer.
These things do need a supervisor who drives a van to put them nearer to their delivery/pickup points, so there are some jobs.
They are not just for lockdown
Love it :)
Gotta love them
Met them at NaU az Flagstaff, Az a few years back. Great conversationist to.
Wish they were here in Palmdale/ Lancaster Ca
Love it 😍
If they came to Scotland they would be stolen, people would sit on them for a ride or kick the hell out of them. They probably couldn't drive through the snow either. Nice though if they did work here.
Eventually they will put weapons on them
They have security system, 360 degree cameras,picking up sensors, alarms and robots call their HQ where appropriate measure will be taken against perpetrators.
Also, the robots originate from Estonia, which is colder than scotland and they drive just fine during snowy wintertime
U could say that about any place tho...
It would not work in high Wycombe with all the hills
I love my city 💚
It's a town tho
My dad told me about these things yesterday. He lives down there. I thought he was kidding.
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Some of these people look like a walk to the shops will do them good.
2474jat SO TRUE!!!
2474jat most of them
But the disabled can still benift
Exactly what I thought... These people are to fat to walk to the shop so they get a robot tondo it... Then because they have no exercise they get ill and claim benefits... Aka you even seen the movie Wall-E?
😂😂😂
Superb! BUT a few questions... How does it cross roads safely, avoiding a moving car - does it use zebra crossings - and how?
Also, I suspect the lids lock until arrival at the address but if not couldn't someone open it and run off with a free meal? And what's to prevent the numerous idiots in society picking it up and bunging it in a river? Now I know they work and its brilliant, but if they were only at the stage of talking about using them then I for one wouldn't believe they were viable -BUT THEY ARE!!! Thanks.
www.technologyreview.com/2018/01/30/145935/why-sidewalk-delivery-robots-still-need-safety-drivers-too/
"Starship employs 100 operators to remotely control the robots during tricky situations, and that the firm won’t have fully self-driving bots any time soon."
@@James-st2yr But James, in the few vids I've seen where people interact with the bots, such as a child that was walking alongside it, the machine kept stopping, as though analysing if the person was in their way, etc. Now if an operator was running it remotely and could see the little girl, why would they, the operator, stop the bot so often - aside of wishing to entertain and fascinate the child? It looked as though the machine was fully automated. The vids were recent and filmed in Milton Keynes, UK. Thanks.
They're not fully automated. Likely the operator was stopping to be on the safe side.@@marknestbox
Folks is this trial still running...
YES!!! I saw my first Starship Robot today December 17th 2019 in Milton Keynes. I could barely believe my eyes!!! Didn't know what it was, what it was called, took me a few google searches to find out any information about it and this led me to here! Amazing!!!!
Robert Horwat - thank you. Very cool piece of tech..
I saw one in Milton Keynes today September 27th 2020. I wondered what it was.
Some of these people could be a little slimmer if they walked to the shops.
lets have a look at you then
@@italixxx Fat chance
@@bartonseagrave9605 stop talking shit about peoples looks then
@@italixxx try to calm down and feeling bad about yourself.
What about theft? What are the security measures?
no inmigrants
And MK is chocca with CCTV
A skunk musk dispenser should provide adequate protection from would be thieves😂
@@Finlay_Mitchell camera and GPS can be very easily jammed by a device that costs £10 on aliexpress. So belive me, it will be stolen
@@TheDanenco your kind doesnt steal right ? :)) pathetic
I’m moving to Milton Keynes just so i can use this service
I live in MK but have never used this service because I go out to do my local shopping. The only thing bad about it is hearing people telling you how bad the place is, but they really don't have a clue.
@@TheRip72 u should try it at some point tho...
Bring them to Sheffield and they’ll end up in the same place as the electric bikes, rivers, trees, hedges, bins.
how are these better than a delivery driver i dont get it
They arrive on time.
Ricky! Hehe
What?
@@rushnready Its Ricky, he used to live nextdoor to me.
Will the robots move out of the way for someone in a wheelchair, or someone with a pushchair?
No.
They will run this person over
They blood thirsty👹
LAMBDA LAMBDA LAMBDA
It is useful technology
So people are laid off their jobs due to COVID and the ones that picked up delivery jobs are going to be replaced too...
I think the point of using them is to minimise human contact because of covid, its a much safer alternative, but I get where you're coming from.
Yep exactly don't want people leaving their house for a virus with a 99.97% recovery rate, unemployment rates Skyrocket and more and more people rely on government handouts, unless you build these or are a computer programmer, dehumanization.
Wake up people you are starting to be replaced!!
Jovem Nerd
Amazing love it.
0:12 ‘50-60 times’ ye i can see that mate
initially these robots look vulnerable, but that on board camera has got to help prevent all sorts of crimes long term, at night they are a much safer option for vulnerable people, more power to the robots!
And the data they gather on us can be sold to friendly and kind corporations. Yay.
Love the tech, but the if the overweight people in the video can't walk 10min to their local grocery store, do expect to solve our obesity issues with this
I can see uses for these.
Real shame though that a lot of the people interviewed are a bit on the chubby side.
I'm off to do some googling now, there must be some teenage UA-cams of '101 things to tease a MK robot with'.
They don't go very far. They move a little quicker than a fast walk. You could not fit a weekly shop in one. I've never used one because I would walk to wherever it would deliver from. They are great for people who are unable to get out though.
My thought exactly, if they can't go that far, a little walk to the locals and collecting the shop at the door yourself isn't going to kill you. The age of the terminators has arrived, ah well John Conner did try and delay it, he never expected they would come in the form of little 6 legged monsters 🤭🤭
At first I thought u were rude but I digested your comment and ur right, fat people rightly or wrongly are associated with laziness so y show fat people advertising the robot “ hey use this robot and end up with diabetes”
There Very Proud of these robots they take photos .....What THE ......REALLY ...Why is you not proud of people that work hard hours in cold to get food to you .....does that not have Real Meaning ....
Wish people would support me as much as they do that TRASH Bot ......
Who needs humans
it's so cute 🥺🥺🥺
I want one in my city, but I know it's impossible ;-; (some brazilians are just awful and would steal them or break or do anything stupid)
God, I need to get away from here asap and go to a city that has starship 😍😍
Million Keynes is not much better
Almost everyone in this video is overweight. I'll continue to walk to the shops thanks.
Big time , that was my thought , bad aren't we
And they stay fat
In a year there's a .2 version out and they're all on 600pound life
Spot on. I live in MK & regularly see them while I am out running. I have never had local shopping or a take-away delivered, which is the function these robots perform.
😂
Slowly we allow them into our lives, soon they'll take over... You've been warned!
They'll be in a river or a ditch rotting away
This guy knows what's gunna happen...
Do these things work with batteries if they do why then people say they take over the world
Can one explain that for me please
Many thanks
@@leylawarsame2444 Well if they are solar powered or run on a hydrogen fuel cell they could last year's without a AC power outlet... I can tell you are in the box and not thinking outside of it .. Now they might run on batteries but what about in the future. If we all thought like you we would still be using calculators instead of smart phones... Lol
@@LeeFall thanks for that explanations I think we are living in a sad and very worrying world feel sorry for the generations to come
Get ready for the carbon footprint up Uranus!!!
I still dont understand how this is profitable.
Or why nobody minds replacing the poorest peoples jobs with robots..
I am not sure they have replaced any delivery people. They have replaced a walk to the local shops. Good for the minority who have difficulty getting out (or at the moment, self-isolating) but they do tend to encourage laziness.
You order the food you want from an app. Starship then charge you a delivery fee. It's not a lot but hopefully enough for them to make a profit and continue expanding the service. Mundane jobs should be replaced by robots, it's dehumanising and depressing doing monotonous repetitive work.
I live in MK. with these robots its on sight. ive put nine in willen lake already.
Also, that would not last here in California... Someone would pry open that thing and run off with the goods. Heroin use here makes people do the worst things.
No one can pry it open it has strong lock which only opens with users code and if someone even try to pry it open it will start an loud alarm.... Watch this for to know ua-cam.com/video/UPZwnc_Lk2M/v-deo.html
Wer all getting replaced that's the plan
Look at this long term it’s just another gimmick that will encourage people from going out to normal shops if this continues people will not even leave the house any more
I give it a few weeks before the robots are either, nicked, damaged or have graffiti chucked all over them.
They have in-built cameras, ultra loud alarms and a GPS system that tracks their location to the nearest inch. Good luck trying to steal or damage one.
Though why would anyone want to anyway? The small amount of groceries that they will be carrying will not be worth the hefty fines or jail time one would receive in return.
Once robots take over nobody has a job fantastic idea. There goes common sense again
You are not allowed to ride an electric scooter but you are allowed to have these share the same space, most footpaths are barely wide enough for two people to pass let alone a pram and one of these, cannot make the stores out they moan about the amount of footfall coming through their shops then encourage you to stay away from them???, Won't be too long before there will be any use for a human being on this planet, the whole world has gone mad.
Great technology but what about edge cases? Houses that aren’t in urban areas without footpaths for example? What about if the local scallies see these and top them up/throw them in the river?
I am sure we’ll see a lot more of this in the future - maybe drones would keep them safe from the aforementioned scallies 🤣
When you know its staged 🙃🙃🙃🙃
@@Finlay_Mitchell their reactions are... that company said them what they need to say.. like wtf dude
@@Finlay_Mitchell I know they are real OMGG i am just saying those people were paid to say those things 🤦🏼♂️
@@Finlay_Mitchell yeah they were...
So you work from home and you're so lazy you can't be bother to get out and do shopping?
I wouldn't like to be the poor s_d who has to clean all the dog filth and squashed worms and slugs off the wheels of those things. And if one of them got in my way I'd soon shove it right out the way!
Dont go to MK its a dump. £63 million
I take it that milton keynes is all perfectly flat and free of any steep hills and big flights of steps etc. like we have here in the north of england. And I can't help noticing in this video how the robots are all operating on nice smooth and level pavements, so is milton keynes more like somewhere in the netherlands where it's nearly all flat like a snooker board? And is it such a nice perfect society free of any anti-social thieving vandals or criminals etc.? Somehow I think not.
It's not flat, they can go uphill. And the pavements in Milton Keynes are pretty smooth and tend to avoid the roads (by having a bridge over the road or an underpass).
As for people messing with them, I've not seen anyone touch them when they shouldn't but apparently they have camera's and an alarm.
Milton Keynes is an new city that's been well planned. No one is going out vandelising these robots. People like the robots and if someone tried to vandalise one people would stop them.
@@bluebull399 I don't think "well planned" has anything to do with it, that alone can't stabilise or sanitize people's behaviour and attitudes. That is something that takes far more than city planning, that I know. What kind of belief is most common in MK? Is it a predominantly born-again Christian community? Because that's what it looks like if the people there are supposedly so civilised. Somehow I don't think that's the case, not here in Britain, it's far too fiercely anti-Christian. Or is it just predominantly middle class in MK where they've all got nice perfect top education and nice perfect top jobs and big fat salaries and nice perfect lives to match with all the usual perks? Or does the "well planned" idea mean that whoever planned the place also made sure that only middle class professionals are able to live there and somehow excluded all criminals and other undesirables by making sure all the housing there is all ultra expensive and exclusive? Somehow I think not, there's plenty of criminals who are filthy rich and who could easily afford to live in somewhere like MK and I bet there is some there.
Milton Keynes is honestly a fairly flat/ smooth area because it’s so new
The robots have alarms and cameras and lock closed as anti-theft measures
Delivery drivers doing themselves out of work, and what's happened to walking to the shops? This doesn't help with obesity. Madness. 🙄
Humanity is fucked 😂
Ils sont gros
Excellent more job losses for those trying to earn a living! 🙄
so lazy. the people ordering stuff in the video look like they need a walk to the shop
that is not the point tho...
Everyone should refuse to use any sort of robot. Including self check outs. You can’t beat human interaction you also can’t beat jobs for people!
intheocean, can’t you see that making, programming and operating these is a wonderful use of human creativity - producing interesting and stretching high quality jobs, and frees people up to do more productive things than delivering other peoples stuff or having to make unnecessary journeys. And it gives customers options; it doesn’t stop people going out and interacting if they want to, but with innovations like this they don’t have to, very useful for people self isolating in times of a pandemic. If you are worried about robots taking jobs you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope in my opinion, it’s the design of the economy that is important thing, it should be designed to serve man, it is not for man to serve the economy. There are a lot of proposals out there on how this can be done if you look
@@zxvk so my local delivery guy is going become a programmer? I don’t think so. Problem is once it’s programmed everyone will copy the base of products so there will be a smaller amount of programmers compared to the amount of people who’s jobs will be lost. To go further look around you how many robots or in actual fact electronics are actually manufactured and programmed in the uk? I think you will find not many so whatever jobs are made won’t be available for people in this country.. perfect for people self isolating? So robot goes to one house the occupant comes out puts their bacteria all over the robot it then goes and delivers to the next house and that person touches and gets all the bacteria off the robot. They too now need to self isolate. Very good idea! A delivery man can sanitise his hands deliver a parcel sanitise then deliver the next one leaving the parcels in a safe place if that person is isolating. Much more hygienic and no passing of bacteria.
@@TheSmisterr Yep. One job to program 50,000 deliveries opposed to 50,000 human deliveries. The employment stats don't add up. I love technology but there is a tipping point where cheap machines do all the work leaving very little for humans to do except sit on our arses and claim unemployment benefits. That's not much of an economy. There needs to be a sensible line somewhere.
this is bs....
I came across one of these, all scruffy and only three wheels in a shop doorway and as I passed it said"got any change guv" I haven't had a charge for ages and I'm really low on battery and because I'm disabled I can't work. They've stopped my benefits and I'm reduced to sleeping rough. I knew these humans would take over and leave me unemployed. But They say you can't stop the wheels of progress.
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You have just described the exact same dystopian background described in the robot science fiction short story entitled The Velvet Glove, by Harry Harrison.