{"id":19026,"date":"2015-11-03T08:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/skype-founders-invent-self-driving-robot-that-can-deliver-groceries-for-1"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:09","slug":"skype-founders-invent-self-driving-robot-that-can-deliver-groceries-for-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/skype-founders-invent-self-driving-robot-that-can-deliver-groceries-for-1","title":{"rendered":"Skype founders invent self-driving robot that can deliver groceries for \u00a31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/skype-founders-invent-self-driving-robot-that-can-deliver-groceries-for-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The local delivery market is worth approximately \u00a3150bn in the UK alone. This includes parcel and delivery companies (20 pc) and personal shopping trips by people (80 pc). Starship said that robot deliveries are potentially five to fifteen times cheaper than current \u201chuman-powered\u201d delivery services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not take the whole delivery chain from an Amazon warehouse to your doorstep, it only takes the last few miles. But right now the last few miles are the most difficult part for the delivery vans. They need to find parking spaces and so forth, so our robot is taking care of that,\u201d said Mr Heinla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the large e-commerce companies it helps to reduce the costs. For the local businesses it opens up new possibilities, allowing people to order deliveries over the internet rather than coming to the store physically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/11962566\/Skype-founders-invent-self-driving-robot-that-can-deliver-groceries-for-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local delivery market is worth approximately \u00a3150bn in the UK alone. This includes parcel and delivery companies (20 pc) and personal shopping trips by people (80 pc). Starship said that robot deliveries are potentially five to fifteen times cheaper than current \u201chuman-powered\u201d delivery services. \u201cIt does not take the whole delivery chain from an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,418,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026","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\/356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69254,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions\/69254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}