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This autonomous delivery robot comes with its own little trailer to deliver the bigger parcels!

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The age of Amazon Prime same-day delivery and Instacart grocery shopping has turned instant gratification into an expectation. For better or worse, modern delivery services have redefined priority mail, bringing goods to our doorsteps the same day we put in the order. As delivery operators streamline their services, designers are thinking up automated delivery bots to do the magic for us. Oliver, an autonomous and mobile goods courier, is one such bot, developed by Seoul-based designer Taeuk Ham.

Oliver is a collaborative robot that can operate both automated and manual delivery services. Smart technology equips Oliver with the know-how to handle autonomous delivery outings most likely contained within indoor spaces like warehouses and office buildings. Goods can be placed inside of Oliver the same way items are carried by utility carts and additional packages can be attached to Oliver’s rear trailer. Once the goods are packed away, a touchscreen display allows users to orient Oliver and schedule their deliveries. The vertical carrying space automatically rises at each delivery destination to make the unloading process more manageable. Besides automated delivery services, Oliver can operate as a conventional utility cart if users would prefer to deliver their goods on foot.

Even outside of Amazon’s speedy delivery services, workers in offices and warehouses depend on quick deliveries even between floors and adjacent buildings. While Oliver might be limited to indoor settings, an autonomous delivery robot would streamline deliveries during the workday so that workers don’t have to waste any time walking from one office to the next with goods in tow.

Designer: Taeuk Ham

Items can be placed inside Oliver’s frontal cargo space while rear trailers provide additional space for carrying goods.

Deliveries can be programmed on Oliver’s touchscreen panel.

Rear trailers provide additional space for users to place their goods.

Oliver can be used on automatic settings or manually via its steel handlebar.

Oliver is a three-wheeled autonomous delivery robot.

This sleek Star Wars inspired droid serves beverages with a two-axis gimbal to keep them from spilling!

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This friendly robot designed by VLND Studio has a strong Star Wars vibe to it, the R2-D2 astromech droid influence in particular. While the acclaimed Star Wars robot served Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, and Luke Skywalker with reverence – the ARC BOT is the ideal mascot of human-robot relationships. The futuristic-looking bot is reminiscent of the delivery robots who serve their masters with the same devotion. ARC BOT is designed for internet portal NAVER LABS who already uses the robot in its headquarters building and now has plans to deploy the multi-robot intelligence system in its second head office building in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province.

The building adjacent to the Green Factory in Jeongja-dong in Seongnam is going to be the first robot-friendly building powered by the artificial robot cloud (ARC) system. It’s going to be a robotic army of ARC BOT AI robots connected to the cloud for efficient service. For now, the minimalistic robot can serve 4 drinks at a time, driving autonomously aided by the ToF sensors and array of cameras. To counter the shakes while moving, there are 4 built-in gimbals each having a two-axis gimbal structure to keep the beverages from spilling. The hinge of the robot opens up elegantly to keep the beverages snug in place for the eagerly waiting personnel.

To give the robot an interactive element, there is an array of 11 dots to express the emotions and make possible human-robot interaction. Those twinkling eyes remind of the cuteness of the WALL-E robot too, cutely working on cleaning the decimated planet earth.  While its curved design aesthetics and futuristic shape make me draw a parallel with WALL-E’s crush EVE. Perhaps it’s the offspring of the two – who’s stopping me from imagining!

Designer: VLND Studio for NAVER LABS

 

 

Amazon is testing its Scout delivery robots in Georgia and Tennessee

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If you live in Atlanta, Georgia or Franklin, Tennessee, your next Amazon order might arrive in one of the company’s Scout delivery robots. Amazon began testing its cooler-sized delivery bots in Snohomish County, Washington last year. They’ve been mak...