Kiwibot's Felipe Chavez Cortes on the rising prominence of delivery bots (Episode 128)
Shift: A podcast about mobility
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4.6 • 37 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As one of the world's largest vehicle suppliers, ZF is shaping the next generation of mobility. |
| 0:11.0 | ZF systems help enhance safety through vehicle automation and protect the |
| 0:15.8 | environment through power train electrification, enabling the safe and |
| 0:20.4 | efficient transportation of people and goods. Hi everybody. Welcome is Leslie Allen. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm your host Pete Bigelow. |
| 0:46.0 | And hi everybody this is Leslie Allen. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:50.0 | Excited to welcome on the podcast today as our guest, |
| 0:54.4 | Felipe Chavez Cortez. |
| 0:56.6 | He is the CEO and co-founder of Kimi Bot, |
| 1:00.0 | a Last Mile delivery Bot company that has conducted more than 100,000 deliveries already, Leslie. |
| 1:08.0 | It's really interesting as we think of these things as a future technology. They're really already out there, you know, on college |
| 1:16.4 | campuses, on work campuses, quite a few out there already. So here today in the present Leslie we have autonomous |
| 1:25.1 | delivery is already taking place have you ever done one I haven't and I have |
| 1:30.1 | never even seen one of these things. I am looking forward to seeing one. |
| 1:35.2 | I know that there are some that are on the sidewalks |
| 1:38.4 | and roads of Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is not too far from you and not too far from where I am. You had a |
| 1:45.2 | chance to go out to Ann Arbor and see these in action didn't you I think that was |
| 1:48.9 | what earlier this year? There was it was probably springtime and now that you mentioned it was so early this year there was still cold outside which which was a big plus for the Russian company that was conducting the deliveries which is Yondex. |
| 2:04.0 | They had kind of specially engineered their |
| 2:06.0 | delivery bots to work well in slush and ice and snow |
| 2:11.0 | and that was a selling point. So I kind of got to see it in action in and around the |
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