‘A very good gadget’: taking delivery from the robots of Milton Keynes

Starship Technologies six-wheelers could soon become a more familiar sight across the country under new laws Driving down an endless string of identical roundabouts in the dead heat with hardly a human in sight, you see robots roving around on grassy pavements, whizzing past obstacles to hurriedly reach their final destination. This isn’t a scene from a Philip K Dick novel, however, but an average Thursday in Milton Keynes. The robots aren’t a new arrival to the Buckinghamshire city, the UK’s...

By Sammy Gecsoyler and Charlotte Smith