Delivery Robots Can Save Jobs and Lives

Why self-driving vehicles and teleoperation are poised to thrive in a post-Covid-19 world

Thomas Smith
OneZero
Published in
9 min readApr 7, 2020

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A photo of a Postmates food delivery robot going down a sidewalk.
A Postmates food delivery robot delivers food. Photo: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images

InIn the summer of 2018, I was walking near the campus of UC Berkeley when I turned a corner and came face-to-face with an irate robot.

I didn’t know it was a robot at first. It looked like a cheerful microwave oven with big…

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