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© Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Grocery-carrying robots are coming. Do we need them?
By MATT O’BRIEN BOSTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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HJSLLS
Unless it can carry 3-4 grocery bags, it’s likely no going to compete with the car. The driverless car IS the ultimate grocery-carrying robot.
Chop Chop
Peoples in the developed countries are lazier and lazier than before.
GW
Will someone just shoot me please, this world is getting craZier by the day!
juminRhee
Video of that aforementioned robot:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_h1ooyyFkF0
(8:12 - 9:24)
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juminRhee
Defence not defense man.
juminRhee
Instead of wheels, use legs. Also give a defenceman otherwise the robots will be killed or maimed trying to do a delivery...especially in philly or Detroit (checkout video).
lostrune2
The univ students are using them to get their breakfast on the way to morning classes (the bots can meet them on the way)
natsu823
It will just add to the plastic junk already in the environment.
Gorramcowboy
Ppl really need to stop being lazy.
Just because it has wheels doesn't mean you can't carry it.
ThonTaddeo
For those of us who cannot drive automobiles but live in places where the supermarkets are designed entirely around getting there and carrying your food away in a car, even a device like this is a godsend. I hope they become more affordable and that lots of people use them.
TheLongTermer
what would be more practical in Japan is to have the supas that are on the bottom floor of many mansions, be automated and online access to products that could be delivered to rooms by a kind of automated dumb waiter system. The selection of products be done by automated pick robots in the store.
Perhaps some mansions have this but I have never seen it.
theFu
Make it a beer cooler with ice that climbs stairs and floats ... then we can talk.
oldman_13
Sign of how utterly lazy our society has become. From Roomba to this? No wonder obesity rates are skyrocketing around the world.
Alexandre T. Ishii
Until there won't be any "bandit" robots I can say "yes".
Strangerland
The answer to whether we need anything, is almost always no. We don't need it. Food, oxygen and shelter are probably the only things to answer yes to.
The question should be, "grocery-carrying robots are coming. Do they benefit our species?"
Bugle Boy of Company B
No.