Delivery robot company Starship is growing in popularity and funding, with the company recently receiving funding from companies like Goodyear, the European Investment Bank, NordicNinja, Taavet+Stenn, and TDK Ventures, worth over $100 million, and now totals roughly $202 million worth of investments.
According to Ottomate, the company claims that their robots have completed more than three million autonomous commercial deliveries, and at Oregon State University alone they are doing roughly 1,000 deliveries a day on campus.
These wheeled drones, according to Gizmodo, is “a great alternative to delivery drones.”
Starship’s website briefly explains more about these delivery bots:
Starship robots are revolutionising food and package deliveries, offering people convenient new services that improve everyday life. Our proven ability to harness technology combined with our experience providing services to millions of people make this a reality today.
Launched in 2014 by Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, Starship Technologies today operates in several cities across the world completing tens of thousands of autonomous deliveries every day. Our business headquarters are in San Francisco with our main engineering office in Estonia.
Via a mobile app, users can order things like groceries from the store or small packages from the post office. Users can then track the robot’s destination to it’s final journey to make the delivery. To avoid theft, only the orderer can open and access the items inside.
As an electronically powered robot, our service is incredibly clean and incredibly green. It’s both good for the planet and your business.
The company writes
The WinePress has detailed that the World Economics Forum’s visions for the future by the year 2030 – where the masses “Will Own Nothing And Be Happy” – talk about how everything is delivered via a drone whenever someone wants something, and return it when they are done.
Once in awhile, I will choose to cook for myself. It is easy – the necessary kitchen equipment is delivered at my door within minutes. Since transport became free, we stopped having all those things stuffed into our home. Why keep a pasta-maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards? We can just order them when we need them.
Wrote the Forum in their essay about their utopia by 2030
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The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
[14] As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed. [15] The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.Proverbs 21:25, 26:14-15
Similar to what I said in my report about the drone deliveries in Australia, this is what happens when a society gets so lazy and impatient that they every little micromovement becomes effort. The smart cities by the year 2030 are the ultimate epitome of such.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Remember the movie Wall-E? Where Wall-E the robot is in a futuristic world and it’s all obese people on hovering transporting recliners that slurp out of big gulp-type cups, they’re severely out of shape and rely on their flying recliners to go anywhere, food and food left and right, consumption everywhere, and they’re all like in a trance living in the bliss of their gluttonous lazy states of being.
Did Wall-E sorts predict it?
When I read the headline, it also reminded me of the WEF clip with drones. It’s coming to pass to quickly indeed.