Day: October 17, 2020

Bicycle riders may soon find themselves to a sharing bike lanes with autonomous delivery robots. Robotic delivery startup Refraction to the  AI recently revealed plans for a lightweight delivery robot that can use bicycle lanes. The company, a brainchild of University of Michigan professors Ram Vasudevan and Matthew Johnson-Roberson, is pitching its five-foot-tall REV-1 as a lightweight, low-cost, autonomous delivery robot that can be zip around at up to 15 miles per hour in both bicycle lanes and roadways, making for more efficient last-mile deliveries. “We have created the Goldilocks of autonomous…

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