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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Robots

The Start of a Journey to Deliver the Last 50 Feet

A blurred image of a Vault Robotics van with the title of the associated article overlaid on top.
A blurred image of a Vault Robotics van with the title of the associated article overlaid on top.

A journey of a thousand miles may begin with a single step, but the most difficult part of a package’s journey is the last 50 feet. It is between the delivery truck and a consumer’s residence that is difficult to automate. As seen in the interview above, Vault Robotics, a spinout from the Safe Robotics […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

Driving Towards Better Goods Delivery Through Automation

Are the milk delivery wagons of 100-years ago and Trailers on Flat Cars (TOFC) good proxies for the future of automation in the transportation of goods?  Princeton’s Alain Kornhauser set the stage for the thirteenth session of the Smart Driving Car Summit with this thought-provoking question. Kornhauser was also the moderator for this panel that looked […]