The Kiwi bots trundles along campus streets and deliver food to students Rory Merry/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
Ding dong! That’ll be the robot with my pizza. Such a scenario probably seems a bit far-fetched but, in the US and UK, delivery firms like JustEat and DoorDash are already experimenting using small robots to deliver groceries and meals.
Currently聽these systems need human chaperones to monitor the robot鈥檚 progress, jumping in if it gets into trouble. But now聽Kiwi, a company based聽at the University of California, Berkeley, is using machine learning to聽teach聽its delivery robots how to cross the road safely, without any human…
