I thought this was going to be git based CI software..
A boy can dream, can't he?
Gita – autonomous lightweight delivery system
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#22Did anyone else that watched the video feel extremely uncomfortable with the comparison of a sherpa to a robot?
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#23What's with the name Gita? You know it is the name of the holy book of Hindus, right? Then again, there is the infamous tech book series "Bible".
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#24Starship Technologies has a similar robot.[1] They asked the Redwood City city council for permission to operate this on Redwood City sidewalks. This was granted. Startship made a video of a delivery from La Tartine, which is a downtown bakery. But I asked the clerks at La Tartine, and they haven't seen the robot again since the video was made months ago. Both Gita and Starship have the feel of a startup with a great…
Seems like theft might be an important practical concern for autonomous delivery.
For Starship, they have a remote voice link to the thing, and if someone is messing with it, central control can yell at them or send siren sounds. It locks remotely; people can't just open it easily. Someone could steal the whole thing, but its location is known and it has already sent video of people approaching it. Besides, stealing from it probably just yields a pizza, a Chinese dinner, or some random groceries.
Redwood City is a good test site for this, because it has both good and bad neighborhoods close together. They can find out how much people will bother it.
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#25I want a city or neighborhood hooked up to a pneumatic tube system, like they have in bank drive-throughs, and I want at least one node of the pneumatic router network to be in an Amazon warehouse, and at least one other to be at a decent cheeseburger shop. Make sure it's wired for fiber internet and I will buy a condo in that development. Imagine ordering something up to the size and weight of a 3.5" HDD (or bacon d…
Try going back seventy years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor...
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#26What's with the name Gita? You know it is the name of the holy book of Hindus, right? Then again, there is the infamous tech book series "Bible".
it's italian for "trip" (or school trip, or field trip), the mother company here is Piaggio which is an italian manufacturer.
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#27Are you serious? An autonomous robot that can walk alone in the streets and carry a lot of stuff inside?
Seems like it's not really designed for walking alone in the streets. All the autonomous operations are portrayed indoors.
the text says that in environments it knows it can travel by itself, and handle obstaclers and stuff.
AIU the operational concept should be: show the thing one route once and it will be able to retrace it.
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#28Looks like an automated suitcase trolley. It could be handy, except ... you probably can't take it on the bus/train or put it in a car or take it on an airplane.
Also, it could be used by bad guys as a very dangerous delivery mechanism.
Or you just drive a car somewhere, and walk away, which is a well tested delivery mechanism with far more capacity.
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#29At Asteria, we were looking for a proof of concept implementation of something we're working on. One of my friends worked as an engineer/designer at Buell (motorcycles), is a mech engineer, has done loads of work on electric vehicles, and is interested in autonomous vehicle tech. He flew out here and we decided to walk the streets of San Francisco to consider dimensionality required to successfully autonomously navigate sidewalks downtown. Our test was just delivering keys from my place (Stock + Sutter) to a friend's house (Gough + Market).
The problems with traffic, pedestrians, accessibility, streetlights, construction, parked cars (illegal, lyfts, etc), pets (and their poop), business signs, trash, human activity blocking the walkways, curb hopping, lane blocking, etc.
There are a designs that could accomplish dealing with a couple of these things, but nothing amazing and easy to implement that would satisfy any reasonable payload without looking/being/feeling cumbersome. Maybe with deployment, social etiquette might change, but in the long run it might be easier to have the city think about implementing lanes/infrastructure for last mile autonomous logistic vehicles to operate.
This is why you typically don't see any autonomous vehicle/agents like this navigating any sort of street with real life obstacles.
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#30Looks like an automated suitcase trolley. It could be handy, except ... you probably can't take it on the bus/train or put it in a car or take it on an airplane.
Also, it could be used by bad guys as a very dangerous delivery mechanism.
That horse left the barn a long time ago. You can strap some c4 to a drone very easily. You could do the same with an RC car cheaply 30 years ago.
We aren't safe because it's difficult to hurt someone. We're safe because we keep an eye on the people who would do us harm.