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Delivery robots were supposed to be about cost and convenience.
Then coronavirus hit, and everyone who could make them pivoted to helping.
From North Dakota to Tel Aviv, Hangzhou to Sacramento, this is their story: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-scramble-for-delivery-robots-is-on-and-startups-can-barely-keep-up-11587787199?redirect=amp
1/ Earlier this week Nuro's R2 autonomous delivery robot started ferrying supplies to two field hospitals in California
2/ Flytrex is building custom-made, FAA-certified drones that could soon be allowed to fly over most any town in the USA. In the meantime they're rolling out delivery from a Walmart in North Dakota
3/ Starship is doubling the size of its fleet in a suburb of London. They're going from hundreds of deliveries a day to thousands. A man who recently received a kidney transplant from his wife called them a "godsend"
4/ In the second hardest-hit province in China, Antwork's drones take off and land at oversize kiosks, carrying samples between hospitals, an integral part of fast testing for the virus when it was at its peak.
The world is never going back to old patterns of retail. We'll need more delivery of every kind. It will keep dangerous people (all of us, potentially infected) away from the folks who keep us fed and clothed. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-scramble-for-delivery-robots-is-on-and-startups-can-barely-keep-up-11587787199?redirect=amp
