"We've solved everything that there is to solve, Heinla said over lunch at a London hotel. You could count how many years this is or how many months this is. But it will happen. It's very clear it will happen. Residents of Manchester, Leeds, Cambridge and Milton Keynes in the UK, across Finland, and in Heinla and Starship's home country of Estonia have all received food and groceries from the robots."
"Heinla has already made a lot of money by co-creating software that became a verb: to Skype. In 2000, Heinla was a video game developer who was hired by Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Jaan Tallinn, a fellow Estonian, to write some new code quickly. That became the filesharing programme Kazaa, and then, using similar tech, Skype. The six-strong founding team ended up selling to the online auction site eBay for $3.1bn (2.3bn) in 2005."
Starship Technologies deploys autonomous delivery robots that bring takeaway food and groceries to doorsteps profitably and at lower cost than human drivers, including in small towns and villages. Robot deliveries have operated in Manchester, Leeds, Cambridge, Milton Keynes, across Finland and in Estonia, and have appeared at high-profile venues and on television. The company has completed about 8 million deliveries with roughly 200 employees and aims to scale rapidly. Ahti Heinla, a co-creator of Kazaa and Skype whose founding team sold to eBay in 2005, leads the company and asserts the technical challenges have been solved.
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