The United Robot Parcel Service may be just around the corner. As cities get more crowded, it will be more difficult for UPS and the Postal service to get around in their trucks full of packages. So what do you do? You make like rats and crocodiles and take to the sewers. Well, not you. Robots.
It will be robots who traverse the highways and bi-ways of human waste. The Urban Mole is a capsule that travels through underground pipes to transport packages like groceries, signed documents or even your Amazon order. It will free up our streets and roads making traffic less congested and speed up deliveries.
It can move parcels as big as a shoebox and fully encapsulate its contents from surrounding wastewater. Thank god.
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you still have to unwrap the capsule right? now thats a job I wouldn’t want. I bet there would be lingering smell.
Would that be before or after they dig up the streets and building basements to put down the pipes and the delivery and retrieval points.
Never going to happen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/07/technology/07TUBE.html