Asda and Wayve launch UK’s largest self-driving grocery home delivery trial
Asda customers in West London can now have their shopping delivered by a Wayve self-driving vehicle as part of the UK’s largest autonomous grocery home shopping delivery trial. The year-long trial will give the supermarket the ability to autonomously deliver groceries to a catchment area of over 170,000 residents across 72,000 households in London. The […]
Goggo Network and Oxbotica partner to bring autonomous deliveries to Europe
Two British based autonomous mobility innovators have announced they’re working together to drive the future of autonomous mobility and logistics in Europe. Goggo Network, which uses autonomous vehicles in last and middle-mile logistics, is working with the autonomous vehicle software developer Oxbotica to introduce Oxbotica’s autonomous driving system into Goggo’s middle and last mile delivery […]
Journalist says fuel crisis is the spark we need to embrace driverless deliveries
A prime time television presenter has likened the current fuel crisis to a previous crisis to do with horse manure on the streets as a tipping point towards embracing new technology. GB News presenter Colin Brazier used his “Brazier Angle” to say that a crisis in the 1890s when streets were piled up with poo […]
Dominos launches driverless pizza delivery in US
The world’s largest pizza delivery company, Domino’s, has announced it’s going to be offering customers in the American city of Houston driverless deliveries. Select customers who order from a specific branch in the city can choose to have their pizza delivered by Nuro’s R2 robot, which Domino’s says is the first completely “autonomous, occupantless on-road […]
Kar-go delivery bot approved for British roads
A driverless delivery vehicle which can travel at road speeds has been approved for trial in Britain. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has approved Kar-go’s design and agreed it is roadworthy, has appropriate insurance and a driver or operator – in or out of the vehicle – able to resume control if required. The […]
Driverless deliveries “could boost trust in the technology”
An autonomous vehicles expert is predicting that the increase in deliveries made by pods will help the travelling public get used to the idea riding in driverless vehicles themselves in the future. Matthew Lipka, head of policy at robotics company Nuro says an approachable-looking vehicle that delivers a pizza to someone’s curb would leave a […]
