{"id":1858,"date":"2009-07-29T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/ups-to-use-robots-to-deliver-packages-via-sewer-lines-maybe\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T19:45:06","slug":"ups-to-use-robots-to-deliver-packages-via-sewer-lines-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/29\/ups-to-use-robots-to-deliver-packages-via-sewer-lines-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS To Use Robots To Deliver Packages Via Sewer Lines Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2009\/07\/robot-delivers-packages-through-sewers\/\" target=\"_blank\">from WIRED<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: #333333\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 1.3; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.7em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Robot Design Delivers Packages Through Sewers<\/h1>\n<p class=\"entryDescription\" style=\"padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 0.85em; margin: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">\n<li class=\"entryAuthor\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px\">By Keith Barry\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:keith.barry@gmail.com\" style=\"color: #007ca5; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entryDate\" style=\"display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">July 29, 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"entry\" style=\"line-height: 1.4; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images_blogs\/autopia\/2009\/07\/urban_mole.jpg\" alt=\"urban_mole\" border=\"0\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" align=\"right\" \/>It\u2019s 2020, and cities are so overcrowded that it\u2019s impossible to deliver packages. UPS trucks have nowhere to double-park, and obnoxious bike messengers can\u2019t even ride on pedestrian-jammed sidewalks. How, then, can important parcels reach their destinations in a squalid megalopolis of the future?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\">Through the sewers, of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\">The brainchild of designer Phillip Hermes, the Urban Mole is a capsule that travels through existing networks of underground pipes in order to\u00a0 transport packages as diverse as groceries, signed documents and any title that appears on Oprah\u2019s Book Club. The Mole frees up our streets and roads for important matters, like mobilizing armies against the cyborgs that will inevitably plague our future cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\">Able to move parcels as large as a shoebox, the Mole fully encapsulates its contents from surrounding waste water.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; color: #333333\"><\/span>[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2009\/07\/robot-delivers-packages-through-sewers\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WIRED Robot Design Delivers Packages Through Sewers &nbsp; By Keith Barry\u00a0\u00a0 July 29, 2009 &nbsp; It\u2019s 2020, and cities are so overcrowded that it\u2019s impossible to deliver packages. UPS trucks have nowhere to double-park, and obnoxious bike messengers can\u2019t even ride on pedestrian-jammed sidewalks. How, then, can important parcels reach their destinations in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}