Rakuten eyes expanding deliveries by robot to main e-commerce site

Soon there will be a road system made for "robots and unmanned" vehicles only. They may have accidents and pileups but one thing they wont have is "road rage". Dont know if such a system is an advance for humanity or not.

Also flight corridors for UAV deliveries and another for flying taxi's and personal flying vehicles in built up areas. Any accident likely to include damage and casualties on the ground.

The future holds many wonders and pitfalls. Be careful what you wish for.

amid a severe labor shortage in the transportation sector,

"Amid companies not wanting to pay more than 900 JPY per hour"

Fixed it for you.

Support your local shops.

can I be a NIMBY on this one, I DO NOT DO PINK.

Those things are littering the college campuses here in the US. Ordering food delivered to dorm rooms instead of getting up and walking to the on-campus restaurants. Just what Americans need: another way to take in more/burn fewer calories, and, no doubt paid for by with student loan money...aarrgghhh!

This wouldn't work in other countries like America because the robots would be vandalized and destroyed constantly.

Go Rakuten!!..

would be nice if the Rakuten website was usable first.

Japan doesn’t have a labor shortage but it does have low wages.

They are splendid and very funny entertainers with their new ideas everyday, one more weird than the next. Not only this here brings the internal costs for Rakuten up as well as their end consumer prices, but also only will shift the problem of lacking logistics and drivers into la problem of lacking enough robot producers, operators, check, maintenance, filling staff, battery exchangers, camera surveillance staff, congestion response teams, general service call center and complaints handling staff etc. Nice to see a few iof those cute toys n action, but forget it quickly, that kind of distribution system cannot prevail.

Good idea, as delivery drivers getting KILLED in Japan, as nobody works harder than them!