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Amazon hopes its Scout robots will carry packages autonomously the \u201clast mile,\u201d from delivery hubs to homes.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong>PHOTOGRAPH: ROGER KISBY\/GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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The companies are backing bills in more than a dozen states that would legalize the devices. Some bills would block cities from regulating them at all.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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I<\/span>N FEBRUARY,<\/strong> A<\/span>\u00a0lobbyist friend urged Erik Sartorius, the executive director of the Kansas League of Municipalities, to look at a newly introduced bill that would affect cities. The legislation involved \u201cpersonal delivery devices\u201d\u2014robots that, as if in a sci-fi movie, might deliver a bag of groceries, a toolbox, or a\u00a0prescription\u00a0to your doorstep. It would have limited their weight to 150 pounds, not including the cargo inside. And it would have allowed them to operate on any sidewalk or crosswalk in Kansas at speeds up to 6 miles per hour, the pace of a quick human jog.<\/p>\n
Lawmakers and lobbyists say the bill was drafted with help from Amazon. In later testimony to a state senate committee,\u00a0 Amazon\u00a0lobbyist Jennie Massey said the bill would allow devices like Scout, the company\u2019s\u00a0bright blue, six-wheeled robot,\u00a0 \u201cto bring new technology and innovation to Kansas.\u201d\u00a0 She noted that Amazon had invested $2.2 billion in Kansas since 2010 and that the company employed 3,000 full-time workers in the state.<\/p>\n
Sartorius knew the bill wouldn\u2019t fly. \u201cI think some members of the committee hadn\u2019t really considered the impact on their communities,\u201d he says of the bill. He worried about a provision that would have barred cities and towns from creating their own\u00a0robot\u00a0regulations. Officials in Kansas City, Kansas, objected that the robots would be using public roads and sidewalks without paying into local coffers. A Teamsters representative said the legislation did not include enough testing requirements and said the robots could eventually replace human workers.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0The Kansas bill failed, but it was just one battle in a wider war. Amazon and FedEx seeded and backed similar bills permitting delivery robots in more than a dozen states this year. At least six have become law.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Both Amazon and\u00a0FedEx\u00a0are developing delivery robots. FedEx\u2019s bot, which is called Roxo and looks like a small refrigerator, has completed on-road tests in four cities. Scout, built to deliver Prime packages, also is\u00a0testing\u00a0in four cities. The companies present similar visions: A delivery van full of robots would arrive in a neighborhood, and robots would travel the \u201clast mile\u201d to customers\u2019 doorsteps without human aid.<\/p>\n
The bots aren\u2019t quite there yet. In a\u00a0blog posted last month, Amazon said it is testing a small number of devices during weekday daylight hours, for now with a person (\u201can Amazon Scout Ambassador\u201d) present. FedEx CEO Fred Smith wrote in a\u00a0letter to shareholders\u00a0this month that Roxo is preparing for a second round of tests. \u201cWe\u2019ll\u00a0come out of this pandemic\u00a0with a greater understanding of how FedEx can benefit customers\u2014and society\u2014through these devices,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Amazon did not respond to questions about the timing of the state bills or Amazon\u2019s role but said the company was broadly supportive of the legislation. Isabel Rollison, a spokesperson for FedEx, said the company is \u201cseeking the authority to operate Roxo the On-Demand Bot across the country and is committed to working with state and local leaders to bring testing and operations of our personal delivery devices to their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n