The future of delivery will be robotic. 1. A robot arm using cameras, sensors, and a AI neural network, will unload a truck, and put it on the conveyor belt.

The future of delivery will be robotic. 1. A robot arm using cameras, sensors, and a AI neural network, will unload a truck, and put it on the conveyor belt. 2. Then the same AI robot arm will load a truck. I predict that in the future, a delivery guy will drive his van to your neighborhood, where he will have 5 deliveries to make. He will drive to the center of all the customers. Then, 5 robotic dogs, will take the package to each of the 5 customers. The robotic dog will scan the customer, get a face recognition for authorization, and a confirmation for hand-off. Meanwhile, the delivery guy is sitting in his car twittling his thumbs, waiting for the robotic dogs to come back. Ten minutes later, the robotic dogs come back, they charge back up in their docking stations, and the driver goes off to his next destination. The delivery guy will only be used to deliver extra bulky items, that the robotic dogs cannot yet handle. But future robotic dogs will be able to handle all kinds of bulky packages. In 15 minutes, 5 packages got delivered. At a rate of 3 minutes a package. This is incredible, and it will allow UPS to increase their package delivery throughput. Or, the driver will just drive closer to each of the customers. The robotic dog will deliver the package, while he drives to the next customer on the list. And when all packages are delivered on that route, then he'll come back and pick up each robotic dog, as they sit there waiting. If the unions stop UPS from automating, then they're going to kill themselves. Another company will take over, and their robotic fleet will put UPS out of business. They'll call themselves, the Robo Delivery Express (RDX). And for some other scenarios, drones are going to start aerial delivery. These are more practical for suburban houses with a large front yard. You will need at least a 10x10 sqft area for aerial drone delivery. A mid-sized drone will fly to your house, and hover over the delivery point. You will use your smartphone to authorize the hand-off. The drone gets the authorization to proceed. Cameras using an AI neural network, will scan the area to confirm safety, before initiating the delivery sequence, to make sure all is clear. Then a winch will wind down and gently put the package on the ground. Wind back up, take a last visual scan to make sure all is well, and then fly away. The future is robotic. It is inevitable.