Latest Self Driving Robots 2020

Meet the autonomous robots which are shaping the future of food delivery as of 2019

Starship
A six-wheeled ground drone from Starship Technologies. Equipped with a sensor suite that includes cameras, GPS and inertial measurement unit, the robot can deliver items within 6km radius. It has a large compartment to hold deliveries equivalent to the size of two grocery bags with a maximum weight of 10kg. Once the robot has arrived to the customer, the compartment is opened using a unique code generated after placing the order from a smartphone app. In March 2017, Dominos entered into a partnership with Starship Technologies to use the latter's robots as "personal delivery devices" The company plans to distribute thousands of robots across campuses around the world by 2019.

Kiwi
Kiwi is an autonomous delivery robot which picks up and deliver food and personal-care items within a roughly 1.6 square kilormetres area centred around campus. The robot uses Deep Learning to correctly interpret data gathered from its sensors and to make intelligent decisions that ensure a fast, safe and cost-efficient delivery. It can correctly identify traffic lights in order to cross streets and detect objects and obstacles to avoid collisions in a safe, reliable manner.

Robomart
Robomart, a literally little mini-mart on wheels. It is engineered with cutting-edge technology, including driverless tech for autonomy and tele-operations, an RFID and computer vision based checkout-free system, and purpose-built refrigeration and temperature control. The bots are now used by Grocery store chain, Stop & Shop to delivery groceries to its customers. When customers want to buy some groceries, they simply tap a button in a smart phone app to request the nearest robomart. Once it arrives, they head outside, unlock the doors, and pick the products they want. Robomart tracks what customers have taken using patent pending "grab and go" checkout-free technology and will charge them and send a receipt accordingly.


TeleRetail Robot
Using artificial intelligence to automate local logistics and minimize the ecological footprint of transportation, TeleRetail wants to help Main Street shops and small businesses to compete with major e-commerce companies like Amazon. The robot is made by the Swiss startup TeleRetail founded in 2014 by Torsten Scholl with the aim of solving the logistical problems of local businesses. With its 84 centimetre width and capability to carry up to 35 kilograms payloads, the robot is designed to travel on sidewalks, covering long distances up to about 80 kilometres


Amazon Scout
Entering the race of autonomous delivery robots is non other than the e-commerce giant, Amazon. Amazon Scout, a six wheeled self driving delivery machine that is "the size of a small cooler". Walking at a human pace, Scout uses self-driving technology to navigate through neighbourhoods to deliver packages to Amazon Prime Customers. The vehicle appears large enough to accommodate