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I'd love to show you the video, but it's been removed. It shows a Starship technologies sidewalk delivery robot attempting to cross the road, when a car making
by Fricken 9y ago
I'd love to show you the video, but it's been removed. It shows a Starship technologies sidewalk delivery robot attempting to cross the road, when a car making a right turn through the crosswalk hits it, in a low speed collision. The interesting thing is that the little robot attempted to make an evasive maneuver by stopping and quickly backing up to avoid the car. It ultimately failed, but at least it tried.
So Navya, the French company who has deployed several of these slow moving autonomous shuttle busses does not appear to have such sophisticated behavioral algorithms, in spite of entertaining ambitions of building proper robotaxis.
- emmab 9y agoA small robot is a lot less dangerous when backing in response to an emergency than a car. The small robot can't accidentally drive over and crush something.