TOKYO: Japan has introduced food delivery robot for limited distance, which hoped to eventually roll out the service more widely in Japan.
According to the detail, Robot deliveries will be offered in a small area of the city by the US-based food app, which hopes to eventually roll out the service more widely in Japan.
The country, facing growing labour shortages, changed traffic laws last year to allow delivery robots on public streets, and other companies including Panasonic are also trialling cute new machines to transport goods.
Uber Eats’ boxy robots have square headlights for eyes and three wheels on each side to navigate kerbs as they calculate routes on their own, using sensors to avoid pedestrians and other obstacles.
Moving at up to 5.4 kilometer an hour (3.4 mph) and with flashing lights around the lid, there’s a human operator on standby in case of trouble.
Like self-driving delivery services launched by the company in North America, the Tokyo robots will be limited in scope at first, App users must wait outside for the robot to arrive, but one day it could come to their door.
