Amazon scout bots emerging from smoke filled garages

Stefan Mileschin · 6th August 2020, 17:18

Home engineering

The next generation of Amazon's Scout bots -- the fully-electric autonomous delivery devices the company is hoping to deploy soon, are being designed and built by a team of mechanical engineers in Seattle in their homes and garages.

The chilly-bin-sized bot is already deployed in a handful of US cities where it is being tested, albeit always accompanied by a human. And to make sure that Scout bots ever reach the next stage of development, Amazon's team had to work their way around the new restrictions suddenly imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This meant a lot more than a decent internet connection. In early March, therefore, Seattle-based Amazon mechanical engineer Jeff Gorges transformed his garage into an R&D lab of motors and wheels in anticipation of office closures. Since then, Gorges has been iterating the bot from his garage workbench, testing various new features by driving the device around his patio.

https://fudzilla.com/news/automotive...filled-garages

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Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,541	Amazon scout bots emerging from smoke filled garages Home engineering The next generation of Amazon's Scout bots -- the fully-electric autonomous delivery devices the company is hoping to deploy soon, are being designed and built by a team of mechanical engineers in Seattle in their homes and garages. The chilly-bin-sized bot is already deployed in a handful of US cities where it is being tested, albeit always accompanied by a human. And to make sure that Scout bots ever reach the next stage of development, Amazon's team had to work their way around the new restrictions suddenly imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This meant a lot more than a decent internet connection. In early March, therefore, Seattle-based Amazon mechanical engineer Jeff Gorges transformed his garage into an R&D lab of motors and wheels in anticipation of office closures. Since then, Gorges has been iterating the bot from his garage workbench, testing various new features by driving the device around his patio. https://fudzilla.com/news/automotive...filled-garages

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