DHL, the world’s largest logistics company, has unveiled an autonomous vehicle designed to carry letters and parcels and follow around the postal worker as he or she delivers mail items from door to door.
The robotic parcel carrier – called PostBot – could move along in tandem with the worker, saving time overall and energy on the part of the human.
DHL selected the a town called Bad Hersfeld to test the self-propelled electric robot. Bad Hersfeld is said to be a “smart city”. [Read more…] about DHL tests PostBot autonomous vehicle for postal deliveries