New technology to protect delivery drones from grocery thieves

At the moment, the vehicles have a

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single compartment to transport items. This is locked during the journey and can only be opened by the recipient via a smartphone app.

In the future, however, according to a European patent, neighbourhoods will be hooked up to hyper-local social networks.

A dedicated drone would make deliveries to households up and down the street.

This would pose problems if a customer lifted the vehicle’s lid to remove their package but could then access neighbours’ deliveries.

In response, Starship has filed a patent for “security measures for robotic package delivery”.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/techandgadgets/new-technology-to-protect-delivery-drones-from-grocery-thieves-a3628491.html