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Development of Autonomous Vehicles
Published in Diego Galar, Uday Kumar, Dammika Seneviratne, Robots, Drones, UAVs and UGVs for Operation and Maintenance, 2020
Diego Galar, Uday Kumar, Dammika Seneviratne
A delivery robot is an autonomous robot used to deliver goods. As of February 2017, the following companies were developing delivery robots (some with pilot deliveries in progress): Starship TechnologiesDispatchMarble.
Factors affecting intention and attitude toward sidewalk autonomous delivery robots among online shoppers
Published in Transportation Planning and Technology, 2022
Sidewalk autonomous delivery robots (SADRs) are a novel idea that is in its infancy. A delivery robot is a small-sized unmanned ground vehicle that carries products through sidewalks without human intervention (Hoffmann and Prause 2018). In the delivery of goods from a store/warehouse to many destinations, several delivery robots enter an electric van and, after reaching the given destinations, each of them comes out of the van and moves toward its destination through the sidewalks (Boysen, Schwerdfeger, and Weidinger 2018; Jennings and Figliozzi 2019). Delivery robots provide various advantages over traditional delivery methods, including speedy delivery, the flexible selection of a convenient delivery time, reduced costs, eco-friendliness, and decreased traffic (Lee et al. 2016; Hoffmann and Prause 2018; Prause and Boevsky 2018). Interestingly, such robots can be much more beneficial than traditional methods in specific conditions such as the COVID-19 pandemic and help protect the health of customers and vendors (Rai, Touami, and Dablanc 2022). However, the use of delivery robots can be risky in the views of customers. The concerns of customers about delivery robots include the insecurity of delivery robots (e.g. products may be damaged or stolen with their contents) and the safety of pedestrians (e.g. pedestrians and objects being harmed by the robots) (Kunze 2016).