The world’s first crewless, automated cargo ship will launch in 2018, reports the Wall Street Journal, and is expected to be fully autonomous by 2020.
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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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The robots are indeed already here. I work at a university where my job is teaching students and doing research and robotics and so I really what I want to convey to you today is the trends that I see robotics research going that will ultimately turn into actual products and directions that you might be able to take advantage of in the future.
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WHY IT MATTERS : the video provides a great review of the state of technology when it comes to robots and robotics today from one of the leading researcher in the field. The talk is peppered with short videos of actual robots so you get a good sense of what's possible today. But remember that we live in an exponential growth era, so things improve very fast. 
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ARK expects autonomous trucks to reduce the cost of trucking from 12 cents per ton-mile to 3 cents during the next five to ten years.
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WHY IT MATTERS: if you do not include self-driving trucks and electrification into your strategic digital plan for distribution then you will have competitors that are 4x cheaper than you are competing for your clients in the coming years. Start planning what it means to your people, processes, and internal technologies. Put together prototypes and proof-of-concepts with startups in the area today. This is what digital transformation will mean in the 2020s: we are way past having a nice a website and eCommerce!
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Amazon is building an app that connects truck drivers with shippers, getting itself into the $800 billion trucking industry.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT A key piece of eCommerce and retail has to do with delivering packages from warehouse to customer homes or offices. Amazon spends 12% of its revenue for shipping and is expected to ship more volume than FedEx in 3 years. To reduce this cost and improve customer service by allowing more frequent and faster delivery, Amazon has been doing a number of things: 1- putting trucks on the road with its AmazonFresh grocery delivery service; 2- building delivery infrastructure between its warehouses and distribution centers and delivery spokes; 3- now it is planning to become a broker between small parcel delivery providers in a UBER like model (this article) 4- self-driving vehicles have been targeting trucking industry as their primary focus, with UBER recently investing in startup OTTO and demonstrating a 2000 case beer delivery via self driving truck Combine all these innovations and you have a profound disruption in the delivery and logistics industry. Retailers should now consider Amazon no longer as an online marketplace and third-party logistics company (3PL) but also as a parcel delivery solution provider that can compete FedEx and UPS provide last-mile delivery solutions and eliminate the need for retailers to maintain or lease their own delivery vans and trucks.
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Nine days, 15 states, and 3,400 miles after leaving San Francisco, Delphi's autonomous car arrived in New York City.
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11 years ago the DARPA challenge for an autonomous car to drive across 150 miles in the desert resulted in no car being able to cross the finish line. Today, cars can drive 99% of the way across North America in autonomous mode, and Google self-driving cars has many million miles of driving experience behind its autonomous wheel. Where will we be 10 years from now (hey, I'll only be 60 then!)? As Elon Musk recently said, in 20 years owning a car will be like owning a horse - http://bit.ly/1SCn0PF. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT As I wrote about previously (http://bit.ly/1SCna9O), self-driving cars and other autonomous driving will be a revolution for commercial deliveries (autonomous semi-trailer truck now testing in Nevada http://bit.ly/1SCocm2) and other mundane tasks like commuting to work. The economies this may bring to forward thinking companies are enormous.
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WHY IT MATTERS: we think of autonomous vehicles as self-driving cars. But we are more likely to see business and professional applications such as this self-driving cargo ship appear first.