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  • Because it’s not real. It’s purely for marketing, not for actual wide-spread implementation.

    Even in the best of cases, even factoring in economy of scale and all that, a robot like that will cost upwards of €50k at least, probably closer to double that, will require constant maintainance, and the risk of vandalism or accidental damage is really high. And you’ll likely need a (skilled) human operator nearby anyway, because the delivery vehicle doesn’t drive itself.

    The purpose of projects like this is marketing and public perception.

    • The company looks futuristic and future proof. That’s good to get investors.
    • The company looks like they could replace humans with robots at any time. That’s good with negotiations with unions and workers.
    • The company gets into headlines worldwide. That’s advertisement they don’t have to pay for.

    This robot is not meant to ever go mainstream. Maybe there will be a handful of routes where they will be implemented for marketing purposes, but like drone delivery and similar gimmicks, it won’t beat a criminally underpaid delivery human on price, and that’s the only metric that counts for a company like Amazon.


  • “Prescription glasses” only mean “glasses with optical properties”, so glasses that actually do anything with focus, as opposed to e.g. non-prescription sunglasses or non-prescription accessory glasses that people wear to look smart or something.

    It doesn’t mean you need a prescription for them.

    (That said: in some countries you need a prescription for your prescription glasses if you want your health insurance to pay for them.)







  • The Nigerian understanding of religion is fascinating. They just take what they need from any place they want. In the western world most people stick with the faith they were born in, or maybe switch once or twice in their lifetime. In Nigeria it’s common to switch very frequently, always taking the parts they like best and leaving behind the rest.

    It’s a very open and interesting way to look at things, not so much tied to their own personal identity (“I am protestant, so I must hate catholics” as it used to be common in the west), but instead they build their own faith from all the best sources they can find.