and Ford have already been experimenting with sending delivery robots to doorsteps. Now Piaggio, the Italian company that makes the Vespa scooter, is offering a stylish alternative to those blandly utilitarian machines — albeit one that weighs 50 pounds and costs $3,250.
“That’s a lot of money for what is in effect just a cargo-carrying robot that’s going to carry your groceries,” said Forrester technology analyst J.P. Gownder. “It basically just locks onto you and tracks you,” said Piaggio Fast Forward’s other co-founder, Jeffrey Schnapp. “I love them. I think they’re so cute!” University of Houston freshman Sadie Garcia said as one of the machines rolled up with a bagel sandwich she’d ordered. She said it was so cold she didn’t want to leave her dorm.
Although Forrester’s Gownder isn’t impressed with the Gita, he’s bullish about delivery robots of the Starship variety because their autonomy will help save labor costs. Gownder said it’s more of a question of whether ground-based rovers orThe wheeled cargo robots that have already made it out into the wild have significant limitations.
No we do not! We all need to be fit enough to handle our groceries!👍🏻
A little old lady like me, sure
Nope 👎🏾
I thought they were called shopping carts
Be fruitful and multiply... (counter human enablers...?)..?
How about inventing robots that clean up the oceans? I can handle the groceries, I brought my own bags