More people are turning to concert work than ever before, but because these jobs don’t usually come with compensation for employers, their proliferation could exacerbate inequality for millions of Americans.…
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Service workers already have another thankless job: Checking vaccine status
As the delta variant prolongs the Covid-19 pandemic, three major U.S. cities — San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York — have begun introducing vaccine requirements for anyone who visits…
Apple and several countries are making digital driver’s licenses a reality
The driver’s licenses stored on our phones are not too far on the road. Arizona and Georgia residents will soon be able to use their iPhone and Apple watches as…
Amazon’s favorite electric vehicle company, Rivian, has gone public
Late last week, Rivian submitted an initial public offering. The 12-year-old electric vehicle maker, which is backed by Amazon and considered one of the biggest threats to Tesla, is seeking…
Avoiding Data Difficulties – Starship Data Network by Taavi Pungas Stellar ship technology
Gigabyte of food bag data. This is what you get when you make a robotic delivery. That’s a lot of data – especially if you repeat it more than a…
Starship completes one million autonomous deliveries by Ahti Heinla Stellar technologies January 2021 | Average
Starship completes one million offline deliveries Today, I can proudly announce that we have reached one million autonomous deliveries, more than 6 years after the company was founded in 2014.…
Reliability Engineering for the Starship Site | by Martin Pihlak Stellar ship technology
Photo by Ben Davis, Instagram slovaceck_ Controlling autonomous robots on city streets is a challenge for software engineering. Some of this software works on the robot itself, but much of…
How Starship Delivery Robots Know Where They Go by Joan Lääne | Stellar ship technology
(plus how to make your own paper robot model in 1: 8 scale) by: Joan Lääne, Mapping Specialist, Starship Technologies Every September, when the new school year begins, many first-graders…
How Neural Networks Power Starship Robots by Tanel Pärnamaa | Stellar ship technology
Starship builds a fleet of robots to deliver packages on site upon request. To achieve this successfully, robots must be safe, polite and fast. But how to get there with…
Hello, robot! I see robots every day. I see them … | by Ahti Heinla Stellar ship technology
Hello, robot! By Ahti Heinla, co-founder and CTO at Starship Technologies I see robots every day. I see them sliding on the sidewalks at pedestrian speed, stopping to make sure…