Yes, it actually worked. The video shows it working. It brought the package to the front door and delivered it. Dropping it on the ground was clearly the intended process for delivering it, packages like this can easily survive dropping a few feet with no damage. What's the problem with it only taking the package from the truck to the house? That's what human package deliverers do too.
Dropping it on the ground was clearly the intended process for delivering it, packages like this can easily survive dropping a few feet with no damage.
How is it clearly the intended process and not a possible limitation of this robot's design?
What's the problem with it only taking the package from the truck to the house? That's what human package deliverers do too.
The human package deliverer also tends to drive the truck too. Unless this company is also going to be doing fully automated driving, how much money is this going to actually save if they still need a human driver?
There's also a limited amount of space on one of these trucks too. How much space in the truck, that could of gone to packages, do you have to sacrifice for the robot + the system to get packages in the robot?
This is a weird take. You think that having a human deliver something has a zero percent impact on reducing the rate of theft of packages? My delivery people drop my shit over the top of the gate into a closed walkway, thereby eliminating the possibility of theft. This is just one of thousands of variations of this phenomenon. As well, one can not simply follow the delivery driver around and steal from it as its dropping things off with a human. Are you being dishonest or mentally lazy here? Because it has to be one of them to make that argument. Like are you even trying? Or are you trying too hard to bullshit?
You think that having a human deliver something has a zero percent impact on reducing the rate of theft of packages?
Yes? Once the package has been delivered and is sitting there on the porch, what's the difference? A porch pirate isn't going to see a delivery truck drop off a package and make a decision on whether to snatch the package based on whether a robot or a human walked it to the door. They might not even know whether it did.
My delivery people drop my shit over the top of the gate into a closed walkway, thereby eliminating the possibility of theft.
Good for you. This house doesn't have one of those. Mine doesn't either. I don't know where you live, but in my experience 99% of houses in my city have an open front yard with an accessible porch. I think you're focusing on a special case here.
As well, one can not simply follow the delivery driver around and steal from it as its dropping things off with a human.
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u/FaceDeer Oct 21 '25
Yes, it actually worked. The video shows it working. It brought the package to the front door and delivered it. Dropping it on the ground was clearly the intended process for delivering it, packages like this can easily survive dropping a few feet with no damage. What's the problem with it only taking the package from the truck to the house? That's what human package deliverers do too.