Both may take trucks off the road, but bring on the bikes.
Christopher Mims writes in the Wall Street Journal describing How Robots and Drones Will Change Retail Forever. He describes a "physical cloud" of e-commerce that will deliver goods from the warehouse to your door.
Delivery is about to change drastically too. Amazon, Google, Uber and many startups are working on autonomous delivery drones that will one day connect us to the physical cloud.
Mims predicts autonomous delivery “pods” that "could pick up packages from central depots and deliver them to your doorstep, using AI infrastructure similar to what’s currently being used in warehouses." Wheeled devices will probably be more common,
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