Starship Technologies
Starship Technologies is a company developing small self-driving robotic delivery vehicles. The electric-powered robots drive on sidewalks at a pedestrian speed (max 6 km/h), can be remote controlled if autonomous operation fails, and will only be used for relatively short-range local delivery.[1] The Starship Technologies company was founded in 2014 by Skype cofounders Janus Friis and Ahti Heinla.[2] Ahti Heinla also acts as the CEO and CTO of the company.[3][4] The company's business, sales, marketing and public affairs are managed by COO Allan Martinson. The company's VP of Engineering is Lauri Väin.
The robots are equipped with a sensor suite that includes cameras, GPS and IMU, possibly also other sensors but notably no LIDAR. The robot will have microphones, and speakers, so they can communicate with humans they meet. Starship Technologies plans to launch pilot services in 2016, in the US and the UK among other countries, with commercial service starting in 2017.[1]
According to COO of company, Allan Martinson, roots of team are from Team Kuukulgur leaded by Ahti Heinla and there are similarities of robots.[5]
References
- 1 2 Ivana Kottasova (3 November 2015). "Forget drones, here come delivery robots". CNNMoney.
- ↑ "About Us". Starship Technologies.
- ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ahti-heinla
- ↑ "Ahti Heinla - Starship Technologies". Starship Technologies.
- ↑ "Raadio1 – 16. novembri Digitund: proovime OnePlus X ja Apple TV-d, pikem jutt Allan Martinsoniga Starshipist".