{"id":105059,"date":"2020-04-10T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/how-covid-19-could-open-the-door-for-driverless-deliveries"},"modified":"2020-04-10T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:05:09","slug":"how-covid-19-could-open-the-door-for-driverless-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/how-covid-19-could-open-the-door-for-driverless-deliveries","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 could open the door for driverless deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-covid-19-could-open-the-door-for-driverless-deliveries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has put an <a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu\/article\/veeraraghavan-supply-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incredible strain on global supply chains<\/a>, from medical supplies to household goods, as spikes in demand stress-test logistics infrastructures. There is an opportunity for unmanned delivery vehicles to assist in addressing this demand and help to reduce the risk of spreading infection.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the challenges and opportunities for automated vehicles (AVs) in last-mile deliveries and local logistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has put an incredible strain on global supply chains, from medical supplies to household goods, as spikes in demand stress-test logistics infrastructures. There is an opportunity for unmanned delivery vehicles to assist in addressing this demand and help to reduce the risk of spreading infection. Here\u2019s a look at some of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}