The city of Helsinki has introduced autonomous last-mile delivery robots to the quarters of Ruoholahti and Jätkäsaari.
The project is being overseen Forum Virium Helsinki, the city’s innovation group.
Forum Virium Helsinki intentionally trialled the robots during the Christmas period to demonstrate the hardware’s ease of use and connivence.
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The HeRo robot, a creation of LMAD company, is an electric, talking, and autonomously moving delivery robot that offers a precise one-hour delivery window for packages.
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Project manager at Forum Virium Helsinki, Satu Reijonen, said: “We first tested HeRo’s functionality and public acceptance in Kalasatama from May to August, where the talking robot delivered tools from Würth Center Sörnäinen to local construction sites.”
Forum Virum Helsinki has plans to expand cooperation between logistics and customer bases during 2024, introducing deploying the robots to larger areas of the city.
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Reijonen added: “The next step is to optimise delivery routes more resource-efficiently through collaborative efforts and shared rules, which could accelerate the shift to emission-free logistics across the industry.”
Achievements and innovations in last-mile delivery will be celebrated at the third annual CiTTi Awards, which will be held on 26 November 2024 at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London. Nominations officially open in March 2024. Please visit www.cittiawards.co.uk to learn more about this unmissable event for the UK’s transportation sector.
