{"id":88249,"date":"2019-02-28T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/fedex-turns-to-segway-inventor-to-build-delivery-robot"},"modified":"2019-02-28T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:43:34","slug":"fedex-turns-to-segway-inventor-to-build-delivery-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/fedex-turns-to-segway-inventor-to-build-delivery-robot","title":{"rendered":"FedEx turns to Segway inventor to build delivery robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fedex-turns-to-segway-inventor-to-build-delivery-robot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FedEx is the latest company to join the delivery robot craze.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Wednesday it will test a six-wheeled, autonomous robot called the SameDay Bot in Memphis, Tenn. this summer and plans to expand to more cities.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s partnering with major brands,<strong> <\/strong>including Walmart, Target, Pizza Hut and AutoZone, to understand how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/07\/business\/walmart-robot-janitors-dotcom-store\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">delivery robots<\/a> could help other businesses.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/27\/tech\/fedex-delivery-robot\/index.html\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/27\/tech\/fedex-delivery-robot\/index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx is the latest company to join the delivery robot craze. The company said Wednesday it will test a six-wheeled, autonomous robot called the SameDay Bot in Memphis, Tenn. this summer and plans to expand to more cities. It\u2019s partnering with major brands, including Walmart, Target, Pizza Hut and AutoZone, to understand how delivery robots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88249","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}