{"id":9782,"date":"2014-01-09T12:51:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:18:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:18:02","slug":"we-do-not-need-flying-delivery-drones-just-smarter-ground-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/we-do-not-need-flying-delivery-drones-just-smarter-ground-robots","title":{"rendered":"We Do Not Need Flying Delivery Drones, Just Smarter Ground Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By John O\u2019Donnell \u2014 IEEE Spectrum<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>While the idea of an <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/aerial-robots\/amazon-prime-air-package-drone-delivery\">Amazon Prime Air drone dropping onto my doorstep and delivering my latest purchase<\/a> might seem fun and cool, the reality is it simply may not be needed.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason delivery trucks\u2014such as the large brown trucks we see everywhere\u2014only deliver to me around 4 p.m. each day is simply the time taken for one driver to take each parcel to an address. I call this one at a time parcel delivery. It\u2019s the same story for the USPS service. Each day our excellent delivery guy comes to our neighborhood and then spends a long time going door to door.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/industrial-robots\/we-do-not-need-flying-delivery-drones?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John O\u2019Donnell \u2014 IEEE Spectrum While the idea of an Amazon Prime Air drone dropping onto my doorstep and delivering my latest purchase might seem fun and cool, the reality is it simply may not be needed. The only reason delivery trucks\u2014such as the large brown trucks we see everywhere\u2014only deliver to me around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-complex-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47304,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions\/47304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}