Building Self-Driving Delivery Robots Kristjan Korjus Head of Computer Vision and Perception kristjan.korjus@starship.xyz @kristjankorjus
19 th century: nearly free transport of energy (electricity in households) 20 th century: nearly free transport of information (phone, radio and internet in households) 21 st century: nearly free transport of things (self-driving machines)
THE LAST MILE PROBLEM
OUR MISSION TO BUILD THE WORLD’S MOST EFFICIENT LOCAL ON-DEMAND DELIVERY SERVICE
HOW DELIVERY ROBOTS WILL TRANSFORM CITIES Reduced Congestion Reduced Pollution Zero Emissions Increase In Quality Of Life Assisting Senior Citizens Affordable For Local Businesses
OUR JOURNEY SO FAR Started by 200+ employees Leader of the Commercial Operations in the Skype emerging industry service and Bay Area, co-founders of ground-based pilots with 10+ Washington D.C., delivery robots partners and Arkansas, London, 100+ robots Hamburg, Zürich; R&D in Estonia
OUR MODEL Autonomous sidewalk robots for neighborhoods. Convenient on-demand delivery. DELIVERABLES RANGE Takeaway food 1-2 mile radius Groceries 30-45 minutes Package delivery BUSINESS Deliver to end users on behalf of business partners Pay-as-you-go, per-delivery pricing
WHAT IS THE DELIVERY ROBOT? A personal delivery device that uses sidewalks Speed max 6 km/h 9 cameras, 4 radars, 8 ultrasonic and many other sensors Navigates with 2 cm precision Computation on NVIDIA Jetson TK1 Monitored by human operators Carries 10 kg (3 shopping bags) Intelligent and safe
IT ALL STARTS WITH EXPERIMENTING AND HACKING
ROBOVAN PROJECT WITH MERCEDES-BENZ 20
Building Self-Driving Delivery Robots Kristjan Korjus Head of Computer Vision and Perception kristjan.korjus@starship.xyz @kristjankorjus
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