Robots and automation have been on factory floors for well over a decade. Almost everyone has seen Youtube videos of famed Amazon warehouse bots, cherrypicking inventory from warehouse shelves and neatly dropping them boxes that are ready to ship. Yet these are robots that operate within controlled environments with tightly coded parameters.
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In this month's Code & Conduit, Bloomberg BNA reporters Michaela Ross and Alexis Kramer cover delivery robots that are already working on the mean streets of the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, DC and how the regulatory landscape is shifting to accommodate these new additions to our busy sidewalks.
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