Welcome to the World of Tomorrow

If we were lazy writers, we'd insert a cliched "the future is here" quote here to start... because autonomous robots are slowly creeping into our everyday lives. 

On Tuesday, we covered a study that found self-driving trucks could one day replace up to 90+% of all highway trucking – and today, we’re back with three more examples.

🚁 Autonomous drone delivery: Flytrex, an Israeli startup that delivers food by drone, is expanding to Texas. Residents of a town outside Fort Worth will be able to get drone-dropped meals delivered in roughly five minutes. The company also recently received an FAA waiver to expand its North Carolina drone delivery service to 10,000 homes.

💊 Robot pharmacists: Walgreens is turning to autonomous pharmacists to fill prescriptions. The drugstore chain plans to open 22 robot-powered micro-fulfillment centers across the US over the next three years. A company official estimated that by 2025, as much as half of Walgreens’ prescription volume from stores could be filled by robots at those automated centers.

🚘 Taxis, but driverless: Waymo is sending fully autonomous vehicles onto the streets of San Francisco, marking its first attempt to operate cars without any human control in a major metropolitan area.

• Since 2017, the Alphabet subsidiary has been operating autonomous cars in suburban Phoenix – a much less challenging traffic environment.
• Waymo's expansion comes two months after its biggest competitor, GM-backed Cruise, started offering driverless rides to the San Fran public from 10:30 pm to 5 am local time.