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Hugo Romano

Amazon Scout - Amazon's new cute delivery robot

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We’ve been hard at work developing a new, fully-electric delivery system – Amazon Scout – designed to safely get packages to customers using autonomous delivery devices. These devices roll along sidewalks at a walking pace. Starting today, these devices will begin delivering packages to customers in a neighborhood in Snohomish County, Washington.

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Jaanus Jagomägi
Looks like a carbon copy of Starship
Eric Sharpe
@jagomagi Yeah and the Amazon video shows it actually being used and isn't so much as the marketing team patting the engineers on the back with a "cool" intro video.
Gabriel Lewis
I wonder how long before I see these on the sidewalks of San Francisco.
Kristian Kabuay
@gabriel__lewis It's gonna run over a lot of poop 😉
Sander Piibemann
@gabriel__lewis You can already see original product delivering goods in SF: https://www.sfgate.com/business/...
Stefano Alonso
What about thieves?
Joel Taban
@stefano_alonso What stops someone from packing the whole bot and driving away?
Miguel Stevens
@stefano_alonso @yolo_jo @anna_0x Which could be easily passed by just wrapping the whole bot in thin foil. I can imagine local teenagers are going to have fun with this.
Ryan Hoover
Similar design to Postmates' Serve robot.
Andy Rosenberg
Quite frankly, I feel like the design here is much better than the Postmates robot. The implementation of lasers inside the visor will surely eliminate all other food robot delivery competition.
ludvin saul Gutierrez montoya
No tienen miedo de que se pierda? osea que alguien se lo lleve.
Aaron Marquez
wonder how my package will arrive next day at that speed 🤔
Anna Filou
@aaronamarquez yes, same here. It would only useful for customers who live in walking distance from Amazon warehouses.
Bart Boch
One thing that bugs me - the sidewalk this robot uses as its road is narrow in this video, so basically will this robot take the highly limited sidewalk space? Will it yield to pedestrians? If yes, then will it move on to the street (!) or on to someones lawn? If not, the should it be allowed? What if person in wheelchair will be ahead of such a robot on narrow pathway?
Joshua Pinter
This isn't a product. Why is it on **Product**Hunt?
AASU AASHWAANI
No Must Robot, Must Original Order Send to Buyer.
Daveyon Mayne
I love to have a little 2-5 min chat with my delivery human. Are we replacing delivery humans with....robots? I'm not a fan.