Delivery robots take the strain out of shopping in UK town


Sheila, 71, accepts a delivery through the app from an autonomous robot called Starship delivering groceries from a nearby Co-op supermarket in Milton Keynes, England. — AFP

MILTON KEYNES: It's famous for its roundabouts and statues of concrete cows. But the English town of Milton Keynes now has another claim to fame – a trundling army of shopping delivery robots.

The six-wheeled automated vehicles, launched three years ago, barely get a second glance as they ply the residential streets, some 80km north of London.

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