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Amazon has stopped testing mini-delivery robots that drive on the sidewalk. The world’s largest online retailer began experimenting three years ago, including in a residential area near Seattle.
An Amazon spokeswoman told Bloomberg Financial Service that the development team has been disbanded, and jobs should be offered to employees in other areas of the group.
The vehicles looked like a large cooler box on six wheels. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that about 400 people around the world worked on the project. The idea of an autonomous delivery robot was to be studied further, but the previous concept was unsuccessful, the Financial Service wrote.
Other companies have also been working on similar delivery robots in recent years – such as the flagship Starship Technologies. So far, however, there has been no major breakthrough for this technology. Robots are typically used to a limited extent in individual districts as well as on corporate or university campuses. Problems include, for example, that robots sometimes get stuck on sidewalks and need to be picked up.
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