presented tremendous progress in building fleets of autonomous delivery robots. Its machines have already been employed at retail locations around the U.S., with a very real possibility they are coming to a store or drive-through near you soon.At CES, Ottonomy IO explained how its robot delivery service functions. Once you make an order online through an app, the package you ordered gets placed in a cart-like robot, which navigates to a designated pickup location, which can be quite flexible.
The robot is completely autonomous, relying on HD mapping of the environment it encounters with sensors and cameras, able to operate both indoor and outdoor, day or night. The machine can distinguish between people and stationary objects using contextual navigation and situational awareness to make its way through crowds and avoid sudden challenges like a kid running across its path. If the robot is blocked, it can tell people to move out of the way through its large front screen.
Vijay stressed the focus of their developers in ensuring seamless navigation for the robots between indoor and outdoor environments. They have created multiple versions of the robots. Some are configured for places like airports while others are facilitating curbside pickup orders at stores, bringing out goods to waiting customers. The company is focused on scaling their delivery services and expanding the kind of deliveries they make, having the robots venture out into cities.