Self Driving Robots: The SOLUTION to Last-Mile Delivery?

[@My-Opinion-Doesnt-Matter]

4:55 Nice, a 6 deliveries per trip, so you would need a 15-20 round trips to deliver what a small van can deliver in a round trip, really eco friendly, decreasing congestion and increasing efficiency. 5:30 25 km/h and a human driver, that is very efficient, and you get the benefit of slowing down every vehicle behind it to 25 km/h, other people in traffic must love the efficiency of this system, as well as people who don't get the deliveries to their apartment, but they need to go where the "unmanned" vehicle is parked to get the package themself.

[@chiehlilee9224]

It works in an honor system. What keeps people accessing the vehicle not taking other packages besides their own? What if you took the wrong package by mistake? What if you can’t find your package?

[@Paketda.]

See 4:49

[@Potatorouter]

Its a password system

[@yrr0r244]

I can see that you can’t ask this robot to leave the parcel at your door, you have to collect it and it can’t wait forever. I would also like to see a passenger version of this car so that it can be driven like a small compact city car.

[@h_iii]

These people are brilliant. Outside of the amazing engineers and tech people who came up with this technology, their marketing team is sharp. One of the better ways to get the public to go along with people losing their jobs is to dress it up with how it's helping the environment 😅. If you notice, they continued to repeat that. Yes, that was sarcasm but I'm not mad, if you been paying attention you would know this was coming for a few years now. People better adapt or die. Its nature.

[@eric7069]

Imagine these things creating so much more traffic because of the small amount of packages they carry

[@stevechannel835]

no pollution is more importants (which was not before as well, but anyway - pollutionless is main slogan)

[@zachconroy1443]

​@@stevechannel835but it's not zero pollution. Estonia used mostly fossil fuels to generate electricity

[@coreybrown8678]

Please bring this tech and a fleet of these vehicles to the US and build those to perform street cleaning and waste management/collection actions. Please, please, please.

[@b_uppy]

Have you seen the electric ebike pedal vans? More efficient than autonomous vans for getting packages to customers, with much improved pollution reduction. Asking package recipients to change is impractical because many have circumstances that prevent it...

[@TinkleBell001]

There are like this in US for some time already. In Russia for the last 3 years lots of food and post delivery robots work in the biggest cities. It's something quite common in Russia. Even a coffee-serving female bot.

[@emty9668]

And how does it manage 17 deliveries and 840kg? In a four hour shift?

[@JustinJJHCS1]

NOT!!

[@ursamajor6347]

It is just a matter of time. This is just the beginning.

[@DWREV]

Do you have experiences with autonomous mobility?

[@NikkiRowCoxx]

Yes, Waymo is the way to go! 😊

[@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk]

Girls do

[@piait.yunususkywatcher2977]

Also the technology is suitable to sustain the society like door to door deliveries, actually a good future tech of transportation thanks to the engineers.

[@AMPProf]

And its getting better with Automa-Freight Yorts (freight Yard port)

[@DWREV]

What is your favorite delivery vehicle?

[@alexandrejulio]

The one that Infineon and VW are willing to try in Palmela, Portugal.

[@xmurisfurderx]

The ones carrying high value goods and electronics

[@emty9668]

Yeah... he delivery vehicle can't think laterally. How does it get the parcel up 4 flights of stairs?

[@h_iii]

They attach a drone to it and it gets delivered to your balcony. This becomes more and more common because as time goes on people start getting their fancy, sugar filled, Starbucks coffee delivered the same way. Therefore apartments and homes will have drone landing areas. This is an educated guess btw. I'm not for or against this but it's coming. Human beings are clever and are able to adapt. There is no stopping it.

[@msingh2333]

​@@h_iii not everyone has a balcony

[@h_iii]

@@msingh2333 I guess people don't have windows either.

[@msingh2333]

@@h_iii so you expect a drone to carry a 20kg parcel? How many drops would this sytem deliver compared to a human who can deliver 200 parcels in a 8 hour shift.

[@petecoventry6858]

Yes these and Waymo doing everything else.. Heaven to not have idiots to deal with

[@adamtaintbury]

How well does it do during a snowstorm?

[@MaticTheProto]

What kind of question is that

[@DWREV]

Would be interesting.. We think they are going to test it too

[@ondrejkachyna1765]

So the vehicle consumption is 52,5kwh/100km . Pretty high for such a small shopping cart...

[@alexandrejulio]

Where may I check that data?

[@piait.yunususkywatcher2977]

This project really amazing and very friendly to the environment according to the changing world climate.

[@b_uppy]

I like the pedal ebike delivery vans because people can do a better job on placing packages, finding actual addresses, etc. Pedal ebike delivery vans still do a lot less emission harm as well.

[@MaticTheProto]

Delivery driver is a miserable job tho

[@tankart3645]

In Estonia low-paid labor is already in high-demand. There aren't a lot of people who want to do these jobs. That's also the reason why there are so many Estonian companies working on these kinds of problems, and inventing different kinds of robots, instead of for example new types of transportation. As economically it's cheaper than paying for humans. We have already seen this happen in Estonian farming industry, where there is only around 1 worker for 200 hectares, as more than that, becomes uneconomical to have with the wages they want. Currently though all of the tractors and combines with unmanned technology still require to have a human onboard, even if they can do other things at the same time, like plan new routes, do logistics or economics. It would be nice if the Estonian state would finally give permission to have completely unmanned combines, but with the current political climate it's unlikely to happen any time soon.

[@b_uppy]

@@MaticTheProto That's why it typically pays better.

[@b_uppy]

@@tankart3645 There'd be more farmers if there was less synthetic chemical farming. Low tech robots are okay, but AI is dangerous.

[@AMPProf]

yah but that adds cost .

[@UmbrellaWatch]

Would totally fail in the U.S.

[@dmitrybrooklyn]

Still produces Co2 because u have to build that thing n charge it

[@AERIALSPIRE184]

WOW

[@franseneffendi3878]

The sooner the better

[@milin7120]

Skynet hv u seen tat movie!?!

[@hanzee9008]

Well done and congratulations 👍 😊

[@DWREV]

Thank you!

[@chopperharris32]

The future is the end of jobs for most people

[@alexandrejulio]

There's still a lot of people needed to design, manufacture, maintain and operate this kind of infrastructure. Is it more energy-efficient than having people providing delivery in (electric-aided) bicycles?

[@KentuckyHillbilly]

Invest get dividends and probably gov handouts.. a living wage.

[@CrimsonAlchemist]

Or just use a person with a Bicycle?

[@DWREV]

Which would certainly help safeguard a few jobs. Although, there's no stopping progress... It merely becomes a matter of the sort of progress one wants.

[@FileForename]

taking my job :(

[@DWREV]

We can understand why you're concerned. Maybe in time there will be some manner of regulation in place, where self-driving robots only end up on shift in case an employee is unwell? Or perhaps in areas where it's particularly congested? AI without regulation that protects the rights of workers certainly won't work.

[@hasooneh998]

@@DWREVlol dont be so naive

[@hasooneh998]

Only when ur sick 😂 this shit is here to replace all of us

[@jeromeshipp1335]

They are trying so hard to rid the world of people.

[@JustinJJHCS1]

I use a ECar no need for an eFFing AI bet you It can't find a 56-floor apartment!!

[@msingh2333]

This will never work. You can easily steal the contents

[@ing.pacolh7458]

unemployment exclusive

[@alwynsmit3546]

Hey, let's put more people out of work. Great idea.

[@poljakov13]

jobs are transforming not disappearing 🥰

[@alwynsmit3546]

@@poljakov13 oh really. So tell me then, where are these people who are being replaced going? Specifically this function. Do you want to tell me a delivery driver will now become a technician? And you seem to forget that where 100 jobs disappear, not all 100 are absorbed into new functions as overall there is now a diminished need for staff due to the new operational requirements

[@stevechannel835]

@@alwynsmit3546 it is your problem "we still lack of barmen"

[@msingh2333]

This is rubbish.

[@adamtaintbury]

If it can only go 25kph it will only increase congestion.

[@MaticTheProto]

No. Speeds aren’t the problem, cars are

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Enjoy your pod, your 15 minute citie, wage cage and eat your bugs - cars only for the elites. Never need to go out again aye?

[@DWREV]

Maybe, It's a good first stept to improve velocity too soon.. ;-)

[@tankart3645]

They anyways want to reduce the speeds in Tallinn down to 30km/ h max. I personally also would prefer this, but Tallinn city council is filled with car-minded populists, so it's unlikely to happen all over the city. (In this case I mean only city roads and not expressways connecting one city part to another.) Also the top speed of these vehicles is 50 km/h.

[@dvlrnr]

Cities are more efficient with 30 km/h top speeds than 50 km/h.

[@sadikbroboniqi6744]

Cool i can work remotely