Eliport: Friendly neighborhood robots for cheaper last-mile deliveries

Spain

6 min read

Apr 09, 2019

By Amalia González

Image: Eliport

The Spanish logistics robot maker has a solution to improve last-mile delivery, with community-based smart robots, parcel hubs and postboxes. CompassList spoke to its co-founders at the recent 4YFN conference in Barcelona

Imagine saying hello to a robot you know by name as it rolls around your neighborhood, making door-to-door deliveries like your local postman or milkman.
For Spanish last-mile logistics robotics startup Eliport, its friendly couriers-on-wheels are just one aspect of the smart cities envisioned by governments and tech companies worldwide, running alongside driverless cars, drones and other IoT devices.
Founded by former heads from Glovo and Degustabox, Eliport produces autonomous delivery robots that travel at walking speed on pavements and in pedestrian zones, servicing small communiti...

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