Autonomous pods are now delivering groceries to customers in Arizona
Back in the summer, tech startup Nuro teamed up with supermarket giant Kroger forautonomous grocery deliveriesto customers in Scottsdale, Arizona. Initially, the service used self-driving Prius hybrids, but this week Nuro switched over to its far cooler “R1” autonomous delivery pod. While the Prius had a safety driver on board, the R1 delivery pod is unmanned and instead monitored remotely. Dave Ferguson, co-founder of the Mountain View, California-based tech company,saidin a blog post that the launch of the pods represents “the culmination of years of long days and team breakthroughs, sweat, and (literal) tears....