A robot that delivers food to your house (pictures)
Starship Technologies' delivery 'bot is built to find its way from the supermarket to your house.
Luke Westaway
Meet your friendly neighbourhood delivery robot. We got to check it out at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The robot has a total of six wheels.
There are nine cameras on the 'bot, which helps it figure out where it's going.
Inside, it can hold two to three bags' worth of groceries.
The robot travels at roughly 6kph.
It can take about 12 kilos of weight.
The robot is semi-autonomous, which means that for the most part, it can find its own way around. When it encounters an obstacle, however, a remote human operator advises the plucky machine on how to proceed.
The plan is to sell the delivery robot to supermarkets or local businesses, which will use it to handle deliveries.