Close up photograph of a self-driving delivery robot on a paved road lined by trees and street lights. No other vehicles or people are visible and the impression is that the robot is in a pedestrian area or park. The device has simple, elegant, rounded lines. Its main body, resembling a box or ice cooler, is shiny white, with a downward curved white lid and a black trim. In the front, just below the lid, there is an array of cameras behind a transparent plastic shield. Further down, on the side, there is an array of what appear to be five LED lights. The robot has six black wheels, three on each side, with a yellow trim near the edge. In the front right corner, one black pole, possibly an antenna, extends vertically for approximately 2.5 times the height of the robot, and is topped by a red flag. The flag seems to be made of a hard material such as plastic or metal.

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Object Timeline

	We acquired this object.
2015	Work on this object began.
2018	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Starship Delivery Robot, 2015

This is a Starship Delivery Robot. It was designed by Starship Technologies. It is dated 2015. It is a part of the department.

The electrically powered Starship autonomous delivery robot offers a new way to deliver local goods. In 2013, Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis designed a soil sample retrieval robot as part of a NASA contest. Afterward, they looked for a way to apply their concept to a last mile delivery vehicle. The resulting robot delivers goods to customers within a two-mile radius, traveling on sidewalks at a pedestrian pace to ensure safety and alleviate curb congestion. Nine cameras and sensors help the robot navigate obstacles in real time, and a lock secures the robot’s contents until delivery.

It is credited Courtesy of Starship Technologies.

Photograph of a drone with six rotors shown afloat near a coniferous tree. The drone is white with a blue stripe and the inscription “HorseFly” both laterally and on the underside. Each rotor is mounted horizontally at the center of a circular guard to which it is connected through three arms. The six rotor guards are aligned like the vertices of a hexagon. The center of the hexagon is solid and on its underside holds small electronic devices as well as supporting a black hexagonal wire structure that also connects with the midpoints between adjacent rotor guards and extends downwards.

Autonomous Drone Delivery System, 2014
carbon fiber, fiberglass, heat-resistant synthetic fiber.
Courtesy of WorkHorse Group Inc..
MOBILITY.025

On-Demand Drone Delivery System, 2016
carbon fiber, aluminum, foam; parachute: wax paper, paper tape, cardboard.
Courtesy of Zipline.
MOBILITY.026

Drawing, Design for Set of Storage Bins
black marker and graphite on newsprint.
Gift of Donald Deskey.
1988-101-1547

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUreF/
Accession Number MOBILITY.024
Object ID 2318795901