South Korea To Allow Delivery Robots on Public Roads in 2023 (nikkei.com) 6
Robots are being trialled to deliver food and other items in South Korea, which is planning to allow them on roads from 2023. Nikkei Asia reports: Woowa Brothers, operator of the country's biggest food delivery app, started using robots on a trial basis in 2020 while a convenience store chain started in November 2021. The government plans to develop such robots for export in the future. For now, the government is working to give the robots a legal definition by the end of this year so that they can be allowed to operate on roads. They are currently banned on roads as the law treats them as unmanned "vehicles." As a trial, the government has established a special zone around an apartment complex in Suwon, a city on the outskirts of Seoul, where Woowa has begun a food delivery service using a robot it developed. The robot is called "Dilly Drive" and stands about 70 cm high.
Caution (Score:2)
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Collision?
Hell, I"m thinking these things are going to turn into mobile targets.
I mean, how often, usually in more rural areas...do you not see signs with bullet or buckshot holes in them.
I just picture driving along and seeing these things broken and maybe beeping on the roadside...full of holes from passing drivers.
Gun idiot (Score:2)
South Korea, did you notice? Not USA.
You may not believe it but there is hardly any other place as silly on weapons and shooting as the US of A appears to be. Bullet holes in signs a normal sight? Only for you guys.
I notice it on sites like Thingiverse, collections of guns and tanks and fighter planes and war ships and knightsswith fantasy armors? That's how you know it's an USian
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An USian male, to be precise, the women don't seem to share that defect.
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I know this was SK, but I was thinking in terms of little robots traversing the land in the US....
They'd likely be targets for a LOT of things.
And again, when I talked about shot up signs, this is largely from bored teens in rural areas.
Put Truckers our of Work (Score:2)
We need autonomous semis so workers never have leverage over the politicians again. I trust politicians implicitly.
Autonomous shopping cart (Score:1)
Having read the (short) article, I'd say the Dilly Drive and a cuter but unnamed robot being trialed by Korea's 7-Eleven operator aren't going to put any delivery drivers out of work, unless they happen to be go-kart drivers. And any human driver that crashes into these roving shopping carts is likely to be the one at fault. The robot travels at a mere walking pace of 6 kph, super fast only by Martian land standards.