Mercedes wants to use robots for making goods deliveries


  • TECH
  • Monday, 16 Jan 2017

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While Amazon is looking at drones as a solution to honouring customers' orders, Mercedes is taking a much more grounded approach to making parcel deliveries autonomous and efficient. 

Mercedes-Benz Vans is investing in a company called Starship Technologies, one of the world's leading start-ups in the field of autonomous delivery robots in a bid to make delivering goods to homes as simple as ordering them online. 

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