Newscasts - Four-legged robot uses AI to deliver packages to your door
19/03/2025 07:36
Click the following link to watch video: https://share.newscasts.refinitiv.com/link?entryId=1_081kquai&referenceId=tag:reuters.com,2025:newsml_RW994519032025RP1_991&pageId=Newscasts Source: 'Reuters - General news videos' Description: A robotics company from Switzerland has designed a robot to carry packages from the delivery truck to your doorstep using artificial intelligence. RIVR showcased the robot, named Milo, at NVIDIA’s annual software developer conference in San Jose, California this week. Gabe Singer reports. Short Link: https://refini.tv/41XbOs3 Video Transcript: >> If you like to shop online, you might very well meet Milo on your doorstep in the near future. The four legged robot was designed by a Swiss robotics company to carry your packages from the delivery truck to your door, easing the burden on delivery drivers. >> It's a very exhausting job. So what we're building is augmenting that workflow by having a robot that covers some of these miles so the driver can focus on other things. >> That final stretch from delivery truck to a customer's door is often one of the most time and labor intensive parts of the job. Marko Radielovic is the CEO and co-founder of RIVR Robotics. They designed Milo to tackle that final stretch, known in the logistics industry as the last mile. >> In meantime, the driver can either, sort packages in the bag. They can do parallel deliveries because a lot of these stops, you have to go to multiple locations at once, or the driver can take a rest or chit chat with the neighbors. >> The robot uses AI technology to navigate obstacles in its path, and RIVR recently showcased Milo at Nvidia's annual software developer conference in California. >> So we're building this with Nvidia tools that we use. So we're collaborating already for many years since 2018 with Nvidia, building on top of simulation environments where we train for reinforcement learning how this robot reasons when it goes around the world. >> Milo is equipped with four legs that allow it to hop down from a truck to the ground, wheels that let it whiz down the sidewalk and a crane like arm on top that can hand parcels to customers. RIVR robots are already making real world deliveries in Switzerland, and Bolonich says the company is eyeing expansion in the US to cities including San Francisco and Boston.