Will US consumers have an appetite for robot-car grocery deliveries?


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 04 Dec 2018

A Nuro R1 packed with groceries from Fry's Food Store in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. — AFP Relaxnews

Anitha Arackaparampil likes the idea of robot cars delivering groceries to her Burlingame home for her family of four – in theory. 

In reality, deliveries she's received from test runs by a pilot project of digital grocer Farmstead and autonomous van maker Udelv had issues. 

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