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Amazon is now delivering packages in Southern California with its Scout robots

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Geekz Snow

Amazon has been testing its Scout delivery robots near its headquarters in Snohomish County, Washington, for a few months.

Today, it announced that it’s expanding the program, and it’s set to start testing the robots in the Irving, California, area on a larger scale.

To start, Amazon will only have “a small number of Amazon Scout devices,” which will only deliver packages on weekdays during daylight hours.

Each Scout robot will also be accompanied by a human Amazon employee to keep an eye on things (at least as the program kicks off), even though the robots will be autonomously navigating and delivering their packages.

These are the same policies that Amazon has been using for its initial test in Washington, but the expansion to a new city proves that the company views it to be at least somewhat successful.

According to Amazon, the Scout robots will be seamlessly integrated into orders for customers in the Irvine area.

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