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A company offering a fleet of popular autonomous delivery robots has revealed that business has quadrupled during the last game-changing year of the pandemic. Starship Technologies launched their quirky UK robot operation three years ago in Milton Keynes, with a fleet of 100 of the machines delivering groceries and takeaway food to customers around the town. Residents have said the electric robots - which are programmed to say thank you if someone helps them - have become a beloved feature of the town, with many people always keeping an eye out for them. The robots can been seen all over Milton Keynes (SWNS)
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Estonian technology firm Cleveron, which specializes in last-mile parcel lockers and robots, unveiled on Wednesday a driverless, semi-autonomous delivery vehicle.
Roughly half the size of a sedan, the delivery robot, called the Cleveron 701, can carry up to 500 pounds and travel within a 30-minute range of the warehouse or store at a maximum speed of 30 miles per hour. Teleoperators will be able to remotely supervise up to 10 vehicles at a time as they traverse low-traffic areas and roads.
Cleveron’s announcement of the driverless vehicles comes at a time when grocers are increasingly testing robots for grocery delivery.
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As the pandemic has revealed, while global trade worked well when trade routes were running smoothly, disruptions to them can lead to chaos. In a 2018 report on the future of food supply chains, for example, the consultancy ARUP found that only eight per cent of companies in the sector believed that they had a genuinely agile supply chain that could respond to disruption quickly.
In 2021, we will see the long supply chains and just-in-time principles of manufacturing and retail turned on their heads. And, as global supply chains continue to be disrupted by the pandemic, we will also change our attitudes to the idea of repairing rather than replacing goods.