City dwellers have long been accustomed to fast food and grocery delivery services, but what they haven’t quite gotten used to is meeting a robot on their doorstep. Skype co-founder Ahti Heinla is confident that his new initiative will make a difference.
Heinla is the CEO of Starship Technologies, a startup that, he says, is already able to organize deliveries with robots, at a small profit and even cheaper than with human delivery people. This is possible even in small towns and villages, where such a service was previously impossible. Today, people in Manchester, Leeds, Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Finland, and Heinla’s homeland, Estonia, are already receiving food and groceries via Starship’s small white robots.
