Caterpillar the manufacturer of large scale equipment for sectors such as construction mining and transportation has agreed to acquire marble a startup company that makes delivery robots.
Marble delivery robot.
Marble s been learning a lot out on the streets of san francisco.
Autonomous robot company marble is offering food deliveries in parts of san francisco.
And is now cat robotics.
Marble creates a fleet of intelligent courier robots to reliably and securely transport the goods that people need and want.
Marble a robot delivery startup is now hitting the streets of san francisco s relatively flat mission and potrero hill districts in a new partnership with yelp s eat24 to deliver food in the.
Marble s robot is perfectly suited to transport the essentials including groceries meals and medicine.
We re excited to join the autonomy team at caterpillar together we will drive the next generation of autonomy solutions for.
Because of the mobility restrictions of the robots marble will first need to map out accessible routes in its delivery areas.
Sensors camera and ultrasonic technology help the robot with navigation but there is human oversight in.
Rogers said marble wants to start that process later this month.
The result is a smaller more powerful delivery robot that could soon go fully autonomous.