Yunji and Alibaba’s Taobao Flash Shopping plan indoor delivery robots

Yunji Technology and Alibaba’s Taobao Flash Shopping have agreed to develop and deploy delivery robots in apartments, hotels and other controlled-access buildings. The planned service would handle the indoor leg after a human courier brings an order to the building: robots would collect items, use elevators, deliver to rooms and notify customers. The partners also plan system integration, including multi-robot scheduling and links to elevator and access-control systems; the article does not report deployment results.