Package delivery robot for the last 50 feet - Jaime Fisac: Celebrate Princeton Innovation 2023
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- A new robotic system could carry packages from delivery vehicles to customers’ doorsteps, doubling the efficiency of human drivers by 2030.
The design fluidly combines two common modes of robot mobility: legs and wheels. The robots’ unique configuration allows them to strategically navigate curbs, stairs and irregular terrain.
Numerous organizations are working to address the “last-mile delivery problem,” the expensive and time-consuming transportation of goods from a distribution hub to their final destinations. The new design specifically tackles the final 50 feet of the last-mile problem through a squad of modular robots that ferry items from the delivery van to the customer’s doorstep.
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as a delivery driver myself, i could see this going wrong in so many ways. something *like* this might work for amazon, ups, and MAYBE fedex. usps, dhl, other various smaller contractor companies, and any postal service would struggle to use these. apartments are a big issue i see holding this back, complexes don't want to use amazon boxes even though they're safer and free when compared to leaving it at someone's apt door, or outside the building. there's so many things to be said about this, the idea is there don't get me wrong, but ya'll need to talk to thousands of delivery people from hundreds of companies from all over the world before this even has a chance of getting off the ground. good luck to you 👍👍
speaking for the US military here, can we use it to lay mines?
You convinced me after the slow-motion arm-crossing.
Never mind, I watched the rest of the video...
Haters here don't realize two things: 1. It doesn't need to solve 100% of cases to be immensely valuable 2. It will replace the part of this job that sucks the most. Blame the system for making work suck instead of trying to prevent progress from eliminating ( terrible parts of) unpleasant jobs.
No demonstration but the animation is top notch. It was better than seeing a real robot. It must have taken hours.
This channel is probably worth subscribing to... These uploads seem top notch
Didnt really get a clear demo though, who's gonna invest
Wow. 50 whole feet.
All I see is another way to replace human workers.
Please just don't. And what the heck, "Princeton University Research". Maybe first try joining with a university of applied sciences before throwing out animations of hypothetical what-ifs and maybes.
Settle down there Einstein. Princeton has one of the top engineering schools in the world. Ranked #9 worldwide by The Times Higher Education (rankings are nonsense and vary by ranker, but whatever). P.U. researchers invented the transistor (Bardeen at Bell Labs) and the CPU (von Neumann at Princeton) among many many other things.