In the future, your beer will be delivered by by robots that look like big beetles out to set up a golf course. Virginia became the first state in the union on Wednesday to legally allow robots to use sidewalks and crosswalks just like us humans.
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The robots are coming
The future will feature a lot more pizza bots instead of pizza boys if London-based delivery robot maker Starship Technologies has anything to say about it. The robot-focused startup – founded in 2014 by Skype cofounders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis – is on something of a tear at the moment, having just raised $17.2 million from investors that included Daimler.
New wave of robots set to deliver the goods
A January 26, 2016 photo shows the Starship Technologies delivery robot at the Washington Auto Show in Washington, DC. AFP / MANDEL NGAN Washington: The robots of the future will be coming soon, rolling along at a lumbering pace with those goods you just ordered.