Boxes-on-Wheels Becoming Jewel of the AI Self-Driving Cars Boon

Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider

Grocery clerk placing goods for driverless delivery to online shopper

Watch out, the rolling boxes are on their way. Many call them a box-on-wheels. That’s referring to the use of AI self-driving car technology to have a vehicle that would be driverless and would deliver goods to you or more.

At the Cybernetic AI Self-Driving Car Lab, we are developing AI software for self-driving cars, and are also including into our scope the use of AI systems for boxes-on-wheels. I offer next some salient aspects about the emerging niche of boxes-on-wheels.

Let’s start with a typical use case for a box-on-wheels.

You could potentially order your groceries online from your neighborhood grocer, and a little while later those groceries pull-up in front of your house as contained in a so-called box-on-wheels. You walk outside to the vehicle, enter a special PIN code or some other form of recognition, and inside are your groceries. You happily carry the grocery bags up to your apartment or house and do so without ever having to drive your car. The vehicle drives off to deliver groceries to others that have also made recent orders from that grocery store.

Notice that I mentioned that this is considered a use of AI self-driving car technology. It is not the same as what most people think of as…