https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤖" title="Robot face" aria-label="Emoji: Robot face"> Delivery robots were supposed to be about cost and convenience.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe">Then coronavirus hit, and everyone who could make them pivoted to helping.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌎" title="Earth globe americas" aria-label="Emoji: Earth globe americas">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">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
1/ Earlier this week Nuro& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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.
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