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We've squeezed more into it than we had time for on the radio version.

And it's a rather special programme today.

We're talking to one entrepreneur and looking at one company, but it is an interesting one.

Starship Technologies.

Nothing to do with Starships. It's very down to earth. And you can see it in action in a select few parts of the UK. What Starship make is white delivery robots, about the size of a large

icebox. I'm sitting next to one right now.

They trundled along the pavement to deliver groceries to waiting customers. Milton Keynes was

first in the country, but Northampton, Cambourne, Wakefield and Leeds have them too, and they may be

coming to you potentially transforming the way we all shop.

Co-founder and chief executive is Artie Heinler, who is with me in the bottom-line studio.

Artie will talk about your background, born in Estonia, but I really am interested in the...

You call this a robot. Is that when you call it?

Yes, we call it a robot. It's a grocery and food delivery robot that

goes on the payments to deliver stuff to your doorstep in the cities and towns of UK and elsewhere in the

world. Yeah, right. So just introduces to it. So it is basically, it's a big box. It's got a lid on top.

The grocery wants to send me a bag of items. What happens?

How it works is that we have a number of these robots driving around on payments, and we have

stationed them near the grocery stores that we cooperate with. So when you order on an app, then the

employees at the store, they pick and pack stuff from the store,

and they open up the lead on top of the robot, and they put it in the robot.

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