We're back in the field again. This time we're visiting Last Feet. No, it's not an autonomous vehicle. It's a company that's solving the last 50 feet autonomously. This is the field report. Here it is. Here's the Last Feet robot.
That's right. The Last Feet robot is fully autonomous. And what is it trying to solve? The last 50 feet of delivery. In the future, an autonomous vehicle will pull up to your house. A Last Feet robot will get out. It'll go over your hose. It'll go through your grass and even go around the corner. And watch this. It even goes up the stairs.
And it avoids your Halloween decorations. And when it's time, the robot gently bends down and delivers your package. All without any human intervention.
Shoes, no problem for the Last Feet robot. It gently goes around them and down the stairs it goes as it traverses your yard. You never know what you're going to find in the yard as it heads back to the van.
As the Last Feet robot approaches the van, it puts itself in, lays down, and then off to the next delivery. All fully autonomous.
That is solving the last 50 feet. That saves 25% of the time delivering the package to your door. Thought that was a one-off and that was staged? Oh no, the Last Feet robot. Yes, it's built to go anywhere. Here we go. We're going to a different house, a different environment. You could even say it's a more complex environment. Up the stairs we go. One, two, three. Here we go.
Through the garden, around the bend, up another step. Oh, wait. What's that? There's more steps. Two more. Have no fear. The robot's autonomous and it knows where it's going.
There's the package delivered on time. Fully autonomous with no human intervention.
Back to go down the stairs. There goes the robot. Oh, look at that. It can do a turn. Perhaps it thinks it's a cool server. No, it's a robot. Through the garden it goes, back down the stairs, around the corner as it looks for its home. Its home is a delivery van. The best part about what the team Lee Redden and Last Feet are building, you do not have to retrofit the vehicle. It simply uses the pre-existing vehicle, as you can see. And it goes and away the van goes after the robot gently sits down.
Well, that was impressive. I said to Lee, "Show me what the robot can do." He said, "You want to see sand?" I said, "Sure." The robot goes right through the sand and through the grass. You never know what you're going to find at houses these days. You could find stumps like this. No stumps, no problem. The robot goes right over. The Last Feet robot is built for the last 50 feet. Logs, if you're in the northeast, no problem for the Last Feet robot.
See, over it goes.
And what's a robot demonstration without seeing man's best friend? Yes, that's a dog. The Last Feet robot made a friend at the park. And we headed to the Stanford University campus to see what it can do. Up curbs, over telephone poles. The Last Feet robot handled it all. Rocks, no problem. Handled that, too.
Those look to be fiber installations. No problem. Power conduit going over that. No problem. The robot can handle it. You never know on a delivery what's going to be thrown at a robot.
Stairs. Easy. Here we go. One, two, three. Up we go. Yay. Here's your books for school. Yay. Yay. Yay. Down we go. On to the next delivery it goes. Oh, wait. Nope. It wants to go back up again. Forgot to deliver a book.
Down complicated stairs. Even as a human, those were long stairs.
No, it can go right back up the stairs. No problem for the Last Feet robot.
Lee, what did we see today?
