"Recliner" wrote in message
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Automated robots following tracks in flat factory floors aren't new, and
the Ocado ones run in a segregated environment where they don't have to
steer clear of people or other vehicles. Extrapolating that to the general
problem of operating in a public space, where they have to self-navigate
around people and other vehicles, across curbs and bumpy surfaces, obeying
traffic lights, etc is a difficult problem whose solution isn't imminent.

Some of the "inside the factory" series have shown robot vehicles moving
around freely (obviously to some pre-programmed destination) and stopping
for people who get in their way

Cherry and Greg almost wet themselves at how exciting this technology is :-)
[1]

Can't remember which ones

tim

[1] Sorry that's an in joke from elsewhere