{"id":2461,"date":"2018-06-08T05:05:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2019-04-10T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T14:52:03","slug":"alibabas-new-g-plus-autonomous-robot-uses-lidar-to-deliver-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/alibabas-new-g-plus-autonomous-robot-uses-lidar-to-deliver-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba&#8217;s New G Plus Autonomous Robot Uses LiDAR to Deliver Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba&#8217;s robots have mostly been confined to the company&#8217;s warehouses but that&#8217;s about to change.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese tech giant&#8217;s latest creation is called the G Plus and is a self-driving robot which utilizes LiDAR for navigation and facial recognition in order to ensure it is delivering its packages to the correct recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Capable of hitting 9 mph, the G Plus can travel long distances and carry multiple packages at once.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention, Alibaba says it can keep food warm.<\/p>\n<p>The robot operates similarly to how an autonomous car gets around, creating a 3D map of its surrounding in order to avoid obstacles and be the best delivery locker on wheels it can possibly be.<\/p>\n<p>There is much hype around the G Plus due to its ease of being mass-produced and its potential to be extremely cost efficient in the delivery space in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba&#8217;s robots have mostly been confined to the company&#8217;s warehouses but that&#8217;s about to change. The Chinese tech giant&#8217;s latest creation is called the G Plus and is a self-driving robot which utilizes LiDAR for navigation and facial recognition in order to ensure it is delivering its packages to the correct recipients. Capable of hitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[914,913],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}