Delivering the goods: Drones and robots are making their way to your door
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Photo caption: Correspondent John Blackstone and Kiwibots CEO Felipe Chávez. CBS News.
Story produced by John Goodwin.
It’s morning in Berkeley, California, and the Kiwibots are heading off to work. These four-wheeled robots navigate sidewalks and even crosswalks taking food to hungry college students. “This is the future,” said Kiwibots CEO Felipe Chávez. It’s a real-world test of robot delivery that sometimes collides with reality.
The reality today is that delivery is a bigger business than ever.
With online shopping, it’s estimated the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and UPS will process, sort and deliver more than two billion packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. Amazon’s own fleet of delivery trucks is expected to handle 275 million holiday season shipments. […]
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