remains a key point in eCommerce and automation is making it easier and easier. Nuro is proof of it: an autonomous vehicle that will be able to leave the purchase at the door of your house.
Nuro is the new autonomous vehicle that will make local deliveries
The sector of the is increasingly more competitive but Nuro is more than just a driverless car. basically because will not have passengers. Its destiny is to carry the packages that any retailer wants to deliver.
Nuro is one who to her 18 months of life has managed to surprise with the presentation of its first autonomous vehicle. Its co-founders are Robert Ferguson and Jiajun Zhuboth former Google engineers who helped build software for Waymo, the .
After leaving Waymo, both raised 92 million dollars (just over 72 million euros) of investment in two rounds of financing, but the most important asset of their company may be their staff, since in it there are talents coming from other key companies in this sectorWhat Uber, Tesla or Apple, and that they share a simpler mission: forget about the passengers.
“We realized that we could make it possible to deliver anything, Anytime and anywhere. We like to call it a local teleportation service.” Ferguson.
Slow but safe
Although Nuro has a height similar to that of an SUV, its weight is approximately that of a third of a standard car, it is fully electric and has been specially designed for travel through urban and suburban areas. Having no passengers, Nuro is lean and slow, which makes it relatively safer, even passing tests like avoiding people without leaving its lane, as you can see in the video of it:
Inside, Nuro has four large drawers (two per side) where you can store all kinds of products and packages and outside It has a large number of sensors and cameras, with which you can detect both traffic lights and pedestrians and everything you need for safe driving.
So while the big companies are going all out to bring autonomous driving to users, Nuro wants to start this process with human interaction strictly outside the vehicle, as long as these cars become faster and have regulation since, despite the fact that they have not yet managed to overcome some legal aspects, the fact that they do not transport passengers may be a point in favor of this startup.
Robot shipments are becoming more common
But this has not been the first project to bring purchases autonomously to consumers. In July 2017 of carry Just Eat deliveries via autonomous robots to the streets of London.
And without going any further, it has been a while testing your shipment via dronesespecially in areas of difficult access, while Google, through the Project Wing and they have also tested home delivery through drones.
Step by step, the use of autonomous vehicles for the delivery of purchases is expanding and Nuro will undoubtedly be a proposal to take into account since the experience of its co-founders and its larger size will give its proposal an advantage.
Image: from Nuro
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