While Amazon and Google dream about opportunity to deliver the goods by air using unmanned aerial vehicles , Starship Technologies proposes to use for the delivery of goods motorized vehicles, according to the publication CNet. Robotic vehicles capable of transporting up to 9 kg of food at a distance of a little more than 6 km with a speed of 6 km / h, moving along the sidewalk and continually communicate their location to the dispatcher and a client simultaneously.
It is expected that the first batch of "robots-couriers" begin to travel on sidewalks English Greenwich early next year. The cost of services such couriers will be ten to fifteen times lower than with human labor and other vehicles. On delivery of the goods, these robotic vehicles will spend five to thirty minutes, provided that the length of the route will be measured in hundreds of meters or a pair or two kilometers. .
Reuters has reported that part of the holding Alphabet Google Inc. plans to use its administrative resources to accelerate the adoption of rules allowing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for the delivery of goods to the United States. It is expected that a preliminary version of the rules will be approved next year, and the operation of unmanned flying couriers will begin in 2017. Under the wing of Google is developing Project Wing - initiative on drones to deliver the goods. It is expected that carriers will be able to move flying at an altitude of 150 m. This will fly around the buildings and engineering structures, there will be only to avoid collisions with airplanes and helicopters, maneuverable during takeoff and landing.
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