Silicon Valley startup Nuro is deploying some of its small robotic delivery vehicles to haul critical supplies for medical staff and patients at 2 temporary California facilities
Initially, only a handful of Nuro’s 50 R2 vehicles are being used in the program, but the number could expand as needed, he said. Nuro is not being paid for its services.
“We thought hard about how we could contribute with our technology. And we realized that we could potentially use our R2 unmanned vehicles to provide truly contactless delivery of goods, where we remove any possible interaction between a driver dropping off goods and a person picking them up,” Nuro cofounder Dave Ferguson said in a.
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