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Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door Idaho and Florida may be next.Virginia has made robotics history. The commonwealth is the first state to pass legislation allowing delivery robots to operate on sidewalks and crosswalks across the state.The new law goes into effect on July 1 and was signed into law by the governor last Friday.The two Virginia lawmakers who sponsored the bill, Ron Villanueva and Bill DeSteph, teamed up with Starship Technologies, an Estonian-based ground delivery robotics company, to draft the legislation. Continued: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/virginia-is-the-first-state-to-pass-a-law-allowing-robots-to-deliver-straight-to-your-door/ar-AAnKb69?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Within 10 years, all states should have laws like this.
I think that Illinois will ban them.. Well maybe the City of Chicago..
Why? They won't be around long enough to ban. But the market for chop shop robot parts will boom.
The unions will be the first to demand the blocking of robots from delivering stuff.
In before "What could go wrong?"Oh, wait...this isn't the Luddite site!
Will there be hookers?
Yup!http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/06/realdoll-creating-artificial-intelligence-system-robotic-sex-dolls/
Those little robots are going to get stolen
Oh, good. I'm not the only one who had a 'flash' of one of these up on blocks, stripped down, with the wheels gone...
Could be worse.