Self-driving delivery robots coming to the UK, U.S. in 2016

Before Amazon or Google can get their delivery drones in the sky, another, much lesser known company plans to beat them to the punch — on the ground

Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis have launched Starship Technologies, a company that plans to send tiny, wheeled robots to the homes of consumers for local deliveries

The idea is that the deliveries will be sent to a central hub from which the six-wheeled, electric-powered autonomous robots, outfitted with a hollow center and a lockable carrying case, will make deliveries to customers' homes in five to 30 minutes. In terms of capacity, the robots will be able to carry what the company calls "the equivalent of two grocery bags." Read more...