{"id":11072,"date":"2019-02-28T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T02:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2019-02-28T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T02:16:37","slug":"delivering-the-future-fedex-unveils-autonomous-delivery-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11072","title":{"rendered":"Delivering the Future: FedEx Unveils Autonomous Delivery Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>FedEx SameDay Bot is an Evolution for Same-Day, Last-Mile E-Commerce Deliveries<\/em><br><br><strong>MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb 28 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) announced today a development in cutting-edge delivery solutions to meet the rapidly changing needs of consumers \u2014 the FedEx SameDay Bot \u2014 an autonomous delivery device designed to help retailers make same-day and last-mile deliveries to their customers.<br><br>With the bot, retailers will be able to accept orders from nearby customers and deliver them by bot directly to customers\u2019 homes or businesses the same day. FedEx is collaborating with companies such as AutoZone, Lowe\u2019s, Pizza Hut, Target, Walgreens and Walmart to help assess retailers\u2019 autonomous delivery needs. On average, more than 60 percent of merchants\u2019 customers live within three miles of a store location, demonstrating the opportunity for on-demand, hyper-local delivery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=33894\">http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=33894<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx SameDay Bot is an Evolution for Same-Day, Last-Mile E-Commerce Deliveries MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb 28 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;\u00a0FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) announced today a development in cutting-edge delivery solutions to meet the rapidly changing needs of consumers \u2014 the FedEx SameDay Bot \u2014 an autonomous delivery device designed to help retailers make same-day and last-mile deliveries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}