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Delivery robots queue patiently to use pedestrian crossing in Cambridge.
as one asks woman passing by to press the button for them
Pictures showed The Starship Technologies food delivery robots patiently waiting to cross the road as part of its new trial in Cambridge this month. While waiting in line, one of the robots asked a woman to press the button for them. Starship said the robots were not 'shy' so were happy to ask strangers for help when they needed it. The trial is currently taking place in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council and the Co-op with 12,000 residents in 5,000 homes getting deliveries from their local store.
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Pictures showed The Starship Technologies food delivery robots patiently waiting to cross the road as part of its new trial in Cambridge this month. While waiting in line, one of the robots asked a woman to press the button for them. Starship said the robots were not 'shy' so were happy to ask strangers for help when they needed it. The trial is currently taking place in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council and the Co-op with 12,000 residents in 5,000 homes getting deliveries from their local store.
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Instead of having 10 of these things would it not be better to buy a van and stick a driver in it and get loads more deliveries done.
A new take on "Meals on wheels".
A delivery robot that got stuck in the snow has thanked the man who put it back on the right track.
Graham Smith came across the robot struggling to mount an icy kerb in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, on Monday.
Posting a photo on Facebook, he said he was concerned about the plight of the "poor little mite", which said "thank you" after he helped it up the kerb.
Starship Technologies, which run the robots, said they were designed to run at temperatures as low as -20C (-4F).
They were introduced in Cambridge last month.
Heavy snow fell across the city on Sunday night and by Monday it was blanketed in white.
A photo taken late on Sunday shows several of them happily trundling along a snowy pavement in Cambridge.
However, the Cherry Hinton bot hit a bit of bother on its journey the following day.
Mr Smith, who was out walking in Chequers Close, spotted it having trouble and took a photograph.
On his Facebook post he wrote: "Saw this poor little mite trying to negotiate a high, slippery kerb in Chequers Close earlier today, wheels spinning like crazy, we gave it a push onto the path, it very politely thanked us and carried on its way.
"Should it have been let out on its own in these weather conditions? It didn't even have a scarf."
He said the robot "looked a little lost" as it came across the road and then became stuck on the snow and ice trying to mount the kerb.
"I lifted its back end up to help it on, and it shunted backwards and forwards a bit, and then said 'thank you very much' before heading away."
A Starship Technologies spokesman said: "Our little helpers are busy delivering in the run up to Christmas, and a light dusting of snow won't stop them.
"They're designed to deliver in a range of different weather conditions, and although temperatures in the UK have fallen these past few days, the robot's batteries are designed to operate at -20C."