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2020
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WTOP’s Ken Duffy tried out D.C.’s Broad Branch Market delivery service, which is through the Starship smartphone app.
Are robotic food deliveries the wave of the future? It’s a whole new world when it comes to safely buying groceries during the pandemic. →
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The Scramble for Delivery Robots Is On and Startups Can Barely Keep Up
“I haven’t been out the front door of my house for nearly seven weeks,” says PJ Jarvis, a resident of Milton Keynes whose wife donated a kidney to him 18 months ago, putting him among those most vulnerable to the coronavirus. “To be able to have these robots whenever you need is a godsend.” →
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Coronavirus: Robots in Milton Keynes deliver shopping to NHS workers
Robots in Milton Keynes are delivering shopping to NHS staff for free as working long hours during the COVID-19 crisis means they sometimes do not have time to visit stores. There has been a large rise in the use of the machines by healthcare workers since the nationwide lockdown was introduced a month ago. →
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Knee-high robots that deliver shopping see surge in popularity in Milton Keynes
The machines have been working flat out as they race around the Buckinghamshire town’s streets bringing essentials to members of the public. They have also started delivering to NHS workers for free. →
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These delivery robots make it easier to do contact-free deliveries to at-risk quarantiners
The city government decided to fast-track approval for the robots partly as a way to help local restaurants survive. “When COVID-19 hit, and all of our local businesses in the City of Fairfax were required to start enforcing social distancing rules and regulations, or restrict their service to grab and go, or just close altogether, we were thinking of ways that we could really help the business community,” →
