Amazon Deploys Autonomous Delivery Vehicles on WA County’s Sidewalks
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But the online retailing and technology giant says it’s begun testing a similar—if a bit less futuristic—concept involving unmanned delivery vehicles rolling around a neighborhood in Washington’s Snohomish County, which is located north of Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN ) headquarters in Seattle. Sean Scott, a vice president in the company’s robotics division, shared new details on the program, called “Amazon Scout,” in a blog post published Wednesday. Amazon created the black-and-blue Scout vehicles, each of which has six wheels and is the size of a small cooler, in-house at its research and development lab in Seattle, Scott writes. The company plans to deploy a half dozen of the vehicles in Snohomish County, though Scott did not say the specific area where Amazon is testing its Scout technology. Snohomish County residents don’t have the ability to request delivery via Amazon Scout when placing an order using the company’s website or mobile app, Scott says.
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