Scout rolls out: Amazon tests smoothness robots nearby Seattle

Amazon is bringing smoothness robots to a streets of a Seattle suburb.

The online selling hulk says it started to exam self-driving robots in Snohomish County, Wash., Wednesday that can bring Amazon packages to shoppers’ doorsteps.

The robots are light blue, about a distance of a Labrador, have 6 wheels and the Amazon smile trademark hammered on a side, according to Amazon photos and videos. Six of them will be roaming a sidewalks of a Snohomish County community Monday by Friday during illumination hours.

They pierce roughly “at a walking pace,” according to a matter from a company.

Amazon said a workman will accompany a robots during first, though it didn’t yield additional sum of how a use would work. The association did not respond to questions from a Associated Press about a test.

Several companies have been contrast identical smoothness robots on college campuses that broach quick food or snacks to students.

Amazon said its robot, that it is job Scout, can navigate around pets, pedestrians and “anything else in their path.”

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