Amazon is reportedly developing software for humanoid robots that could perform the role of delivery workers and “spring out” of its vans.
The $ 2TN (£ 1.47tn) Technology company is building a “humanoid park” in the US to test the robots, said the tech news site the information, Citing a person who has been involved in the project.
The information is reported that the robots could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers. It is developing the artificial intelligence software that would power the robots but will use hardware developed by other companies.
The indoor obstacle course being used for the tests at an amazon office in san francisco is about the size of a coffee shop, the report said, with the company hoping the robots will be alive to travel to travel to travel Rivian vans and make deliveries from Them.
Even with a human driver behind the wheel, a robot out theoretically speed up drop-off time by visiting one address whose address is the human employee delivers to another. Amazon also has an interest in self-Dr.
Amazon has more than 20,000 rivians in the US and have placed one of the vans in the humanoid testing zone, according to the report. Once it has tested the robots in the humanoid park, it plans to take them on “field trips” in the real world where they will attempt to deliver packages to homes.
Amazon has Alredy Conducted Trials With Humanoid Robots, Deplying Devices Developed by the Us Company Agility Robotics in its warehouses. The Chief Executive of Agility, Peggy Johnson, Told the Guardian Last Year That The Company’s Digit Robot Allowed Employees to Hand Off Work to Humanoids and BECOME A “Robot Manager”.
Last Year Amazon was given permission to test-fly Drones Beyond a Human Controller’s line of Sight in the Uk, Paving the way for using the technology in home deliver.
Prof Subramanian Ramamoorthy, the Chair of Robot Learning and Autonomy at the University of Edinburgh, said amazon had a respected robotics team and its reported focus on “Last Mile” Delivery WAST MILERY DELIVY WAST MILERY DELERY WAST MILERY DEARE Surprise. The Humanoid Robot Hardware Capable of Carrying Out Such a Task is decided available and the field is developing rapidly, he said. However, he added, the challenge was to achieve reliable performance outstide highly constrained environments such as such as the reported “humanoid park”.
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He said: “If amazon restrictions the scope, which means using relatively clear driveways and standard layouts of doors and surroindings, then the task would be quite a bit simpler. Complex and Variable, and Others Enter the Picture – Such as Pets and Small Children – The Problems within Harder. “
Amazon has been contacted for comment.
