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Amazon Scout — Amazon's new cute delivery robot
We’ve been hard at work developing a new, fully-electric delivery system – Amazon Scout – designed to safely get packages to customers using autonomous delivery devices. These devices roll along sidewalks at a walking pace. Starting today, these devices will begin delivering packages to customers in a neighborhood in Snohomish County, Washington.
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Daveyon Mayne
I love to have a little 2-5 min chat with my delivery human. Are we replacing delivery humans with....robots? I'm not a fan.
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Quite frankly, I feel like the design here is much better than the Postmates robot. The implementation of lasers inside the visor will surely eliminate all other food robot delivery competition.
One thing that bugs me - the sidewalk this robot uses as its road is narrow in this video, so basically will this robot take the highly limited sidewalk space? Will it yield to pedestrians? If yes, then will it move on to the street (!) or on to someones lawn? If not, the should it be allowed? What if person in wheelchair will be ahead of such a robot on narrow pathway?
@gabriel__lewis You can already see original product delivering goods in SF: https://www.sfgate.com/business/...
@jagomagi Yeah and the Amazon video shows it actually being used and isn't so much as the marketing team patting the engineers on the back with a "cool" intro video.
@stefano_alonso @yolo_jo @anna_0x Which could be easily passed by just wrapping the whole bot in thin foil. I can imagine local teenagers are going to have fun with this.
@aaronamarquez yes, same here. It would only useful for customers who live in walking distance from Amazon warehouses.
