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“Are delivery droids better than delivery drones?”
Kobi Shikar, an Israeli engineer, has designed what he
calls “Transwheel Delivery Drones”—colorful R2-D2–
sized robots that travel on the ground instead of in
the air. These droids are in some ways better suited
to parcel delivery than the airborne version, says DCV
Editor at Large Susan Lacefield. But would they prove
practical in the real world? (http://blogs.dcvelocity.
com/dispatches)
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; Where is the logistics industry headed? Rosalyn Wilson,
author of the Council of Supply Chain Management
Professionals’ annual State of Logistics Report, takes a
deeper look at the findings—and what’s ahead for the
industry—in a video discussion with DCV editor Mark
Solomon. Watch it at www.dcvelocity.com/videocasts/.
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