Multimodal delivery network will emerge: drones, sidewalk robots, bike-lane robots

Multimodal delivery network will emerge: drones, sidewalk robots, bike-lane robots | ultimately you're going to have this multimodal kind of uh delivery network that we're uh that we're putting together, whether it's on the sidewalks or in the sky. And eventually you will have specialized delivery robots that uh go on bike lanes or on the road as well.

ultimately you're going to have this multimodal kind of uh delivery network that we're uh that we're putting together, whether it's on the sidewalks or in the sky. And eventually you will have specialized delivery robots that uh go on bike lanes or on the road as well.

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