A bill authorizing delivery robots in Indiana is on its way to Governor Holcomb. Purdue has used robots for campus food deliveries for a couple of years, and FedEx and Amazon use them in a handful of cities for short-haul deliveries of items like auto parts and medication. The Senate has given final approval to a bill making clear those robots are allowed on sidewalks and crosswalks. The bill bans any local ordinances on how the robots are manufactured or what the can carry, but Anderson Senator Tim Lanane says the bill should make clear cities can limit where the robots operate — for instance, keeping them out of historic neighborhoods.
