Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
April 22, 2020 07:12 pm

Nuro is using delivery robots to help health care workers fighting COVID-19





Nuro, the autonomous vehicle startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, is using its small fleet of road-legal delivery robots to transport medical supplies around two California stadiums that have been converted into treatment facilities for people stricken with COVID-19.


The coronavirus pandemic has forced self-driving car companies in California to temporarily shutdown their operations and ground their fleets, thanks to “shelter-in-place” orders that ban nonessential transportation. But Nuro realized it could still play a role in delivering goods for health care workers by using its R2 prototype vehicles. These lightweight electric vehicles are built from the ground up to be completely driverless and, with slight alterations, could...



Continue reading…




Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/22/21231466/nuro-delivery-robot-health-care-workers-food-supplies-california

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

The Verge

The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011

More About this Source Visit The Verge