{"id":134509,"date":"2022-01-22T00:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T08:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/goodyear-puts-airless-tires-on-starship-delivery-robots"},"modified":"2022-01-22T00:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T08:22:54","slug":"goodyear-puts-airless-tires-on-starship-delivery-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/goodyear-puts-airless-tires-on-starship-delivery-robots","title":{"rendered":"Goodyear puts airless tires on Starship delivery robots"},"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\/8B1lYNRQkoA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Goodyear\u2019s airless tires are now being used by a fleet of Starship\u2019s autonomous delivery robots on a college campus in the U.S.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>The request:<\/strong> Starship recently asked Goodyear if it could design a smaller version of its airless tires for the company\u2019s delivery robots, and the tire giant has now delivered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe micro delivery space presents a different set of needs as it relates to the tire,\u201d said Michael Rachita, Goodyear\u2019s senior program manager for non-pneumatic tires, \u201cand our NPT technology is ideal to meet those needs to help enable a maintenance-free and long-lasting experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goodyear\u2019s airless tires are now being tested on a small fleet of Starship delivery robots on the Bowling Green State University campus in Ohio. If the trial goes well, they may roll out nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodyear\u2019s airless tires are now being used by a fleet of Starship\u2019s autonomous delivery robots on a college campus in the U.S. The request: Starship recently asked Goodyear if it could design a smaller version of its airless tires for the company\u2019s delivery robots, and the tire giant has now delivered. \u201cThe micro delivery space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134509","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=134509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}