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Going the Extra Mile with Spot | Boston Dynamics



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Boston Dynamics is testing a last-mile delivery solution. Spot will help get packages from van to doorstep with less strain and greater efficiency.

Learn more about how and why we’re taking on one of the biggest supply chain challenges: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/bridging-the-porch-gap/

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  1. This is proof of concept, but won't be viable until the driver doesn't need to be there. The delivery people still get paid to drive the van, load spot with pakages and open and close doors. Right now Spot is just an added expense. Still needs: self driving vans with automatic doors and robots to load spot. I'll be impressed (and worried for jobs) when the whole delivery process is automated. The hardest part of automated delivery to conquer is safety and legislation.

  2. I called this! I told my wife and kids, the first time I saw spot. They could deploy a swarm of these from Amazon vans to do the deployment of deliveries from one spot in a block.

  3. That didn't seem efficient, he could have just carried them to the door that was literally 20 meters away. Instead of waiting for the bot to start up, unload packages onto it, wait for it to deliver the items then load the robo dog back into the van. Yeh no. Try that in London they would steal the legs off of that thing.

  4. All you need now in a delivery team: Autonomous vehicle, 1 Atlas robot, and 1-4 Spot robots = 24/7 package delivery team. Could probably store a bunch of replacement batteries in the vehicle and/or charge all the robots at the same time as the car when it periodically needs to charge itself at a station. Obviously, probably a number of years out from that possibility, but it's there, which is super cool.

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