{"id":134371,"date":"2022-01-19T19:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T03:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/delivery-robots-get-airbags-to-protect-you-in-case-of-collision"},"modified":"2022-01-19T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T03:24:15","slug":"delivery-robots-get-airbags-to-protect-you-in-case-of-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/delivery-robots-get-airbags-to-protect-you-in-case-of-collision","title":{"rendered":"Delivery robots get airbags to protect you in case of collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L68ZzwtCon8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Autonomous vehicle maker Nuro has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20220112005285\/en\/Nuro-Unveils-Third-Generation-Vehicle-Plans-to-Scale-Autonomous-Delivery-to-Millions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a> external airbags to its self-driving delivery robots to protect pedestrians \u2014 but there\u2019s reason to be skeptical about their effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drivers wanted: <\/strong>During the pandemic, more people started ordering their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/social-change\/food-insecure-seniors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">food<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/entrepreneurship-innovation\/grocery-delivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">groceries<\/a>, and other goods for delivery rather than venturing into stores and restaurants for them.<\/p>\n<p>This has led to an increased demand for delivery drivers that companies have had trouble meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autonomous vehicle maker Nuro has added external airbags to its self-driving delivery robots to protect pedestrians \u2014 but there\u2019s reason to be skeptical about their effectiveness. Drivers wanted: During the pandemic, more people started ordering their food, groceries, and other goods for delivery rather than venturing into stores and restaurants for them. This has led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134371","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}