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Home Delivery Robots: Last Mile Gamechangers

Logistics Viewpoints

In this situation, an autonomous vehicle brings a package to a customer’s house, whereupon the customer enters a code and retrieves the package from a cargo hold. Starship Technologies was launched in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahit Heinla and Janus Friis. As a result, autonomous vehicles have also been tested for home delivery.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 17-21, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Government to import or export cargo. Transplace’s Ben Cubitt was quoted in the article: Many truck shipments leaving cities such as Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas have been delayed two to three days after each storm, says Ben Cubitt, senior vice president of logistics company Transplace. Song of the Week: “Bullet” by Franz Ferdinand.