When you order a supermarket product on an internet site, a service that an automated delivery robot will deliver it to your home in as little as 30 minutes will start in some areas of Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture.
This is an initiative conducted by Rakuten Group, which operates an online shopping site, Panasonic, a major electronics manufacturer, and Seiyu, a major supermarket, every Saturday from May 28 to July, and the demonstration was held on the 26th. rice field.
The service targets about 1000 households around Tsukuba Station on the Tsukuba Express, and when a user orders fresh food or daily necessities from a dedicated Internet site, an automated delivery robot delivers products from the supermarket near the station to the house. I will deliver it.
The robot can travel on the sidewalk at 4 km / h and reach it in as little as 30 minutes if it is nearby.
In this initiative, security personnel decided to watch the delivery near the robot, and the robot carrying the product was carrying the product to the entrance of the condominium or the house.
A woman in her 40s in Tsukuba, who used it, said, "Because it is an apartment, it was difficult to carry heavy items from the parking lot, but it is helpful to come to the front of the house."
Yusuke Mori, director of the Tsukuba City Policy Innovation Department, said, "I think it is important for people who have difficulty shopping to be able to use these services on a daily basis and improve the convenience of citizens." I was talking.