This new delivery robot will bring the entire grocery store to you | Robomart aims to shakeup of autonomous delivery with a vehicle that can make multiple deliveries in a single run.
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A new company aims to take the idea of sidewalk delivery robots and supersize it.
Los Angeles-based Robomart unveiled its new delivery robot Monday, with the goal of making “on‑demand delivery work economically.” The level-four autonomous vehicle is the size of a shuttle bus and can carry up to 500 lbs of payload. With no space for a human driver, the company’s RM5 vehicle is comprised of 10 individual lockers for customer orders, allowing it to make multiple deliveries on a single run.
“Robomart exists to deliver autonomy in a way that finally makes on‑demand delivery work economically,” said Emad Suhail Rahim, co‑founder and chief strategy officer of Robomart, in a press release. “With RM5, retailers get a profitable channel for on-demand delivery and consumers get everyday essentials delivered at affordable prices. That’s the future we’re building—an autonomous Instacart that’s actually profitable.”
Like Instacart or Uber Eats, the company aims to launch its own app where customers can browse options from a variety of retailers, restaurants, and grocery stores. And Robomarts says customers will only have to pay a flat delivery rate of $3 per order, promising “no markups, no service fees, no tips.”
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the only difference with what we already have is this doesn’t include a driver and you have to offload your own shit from the truck.
Existing grocery delivery vans already to multiple deliveries per run, it doesn’t take an entire fan to bring 4-8 bags worth of groceries to a single address.
The most popular grocery delivery service in my city has their own single warehouse that’s stocked like a grocery store but only for filling these orders. Their vans have warm and cool sides, they carry 8-10 deliveries per vehicle. The driver gets out, grabs your stuff, and brings it to your door.
that driver also makes a living and can be a useful participant in our consumer economy, and pays taxes which help maintain our infrastructure.
heck, the current service already uses EVs for their fleet too, so this robot doesn’t bring any improvements to the table, just a small reduction in labor eliminating drivers (warehouse staff still there unless they have robots picking the orders) and likely a higher price tag for getting the vehicles than buying the EV vans they currently buy.
Lol! “Can make multiple deliveries in a single run” Well that won’t get my groceries stolen at all.
Whats old is new again. How many people remember Schwans running around? Except now you gotta do all the work when it gets there.
My city has something similar ( all automated)
It’s cool but it’s not replacing a store because it’s more expensive ( convenient fee) and it has problems with inventory.
This might work but this concept isn’t new besides that Walmart and competing stores already do delivery
>Los Angeles
Where do they think they’re going to park? Uber eats and DoorDash already block lanes and I assume these will block lanes for even longer.
Sure, sure. And when the front door is a flight of stairs away and cell service is bunk what’ll it do, LLM my groceries to my door?