Amazon wants its delivery robots to be treated like pedestrians

Amazon wants its new delivery bots to be treated as pedestrians when they are on the road.

Sean Scott, vice president of the team behind the new Amazon's six-wheeled sidewalk delivery robot, Scout, told Techcrunch that drivers should treat these robots the same way way that pedestrians saw them on the road. It means giving them the right of way.

Although robots are generally designed for traveling urban sidewalks, they can sometimes be used to use the road if there is a blockage on the sidewalk. In these cases, Scott stated that the robot would only drive on a street where a pedestrian would feel comfortable going down.

"If you feel safe on this road, that's what we want to be," he told the conference re: Amazon. "We want to be considered pedestrians and treated as pedestrians."

Read more: Amazon has revealed a new autonomous delivery robot named "Scout"

Some people have not always been nice to robots. Starship Technologies, which has created its own food delivery robot, previously said some people were kicking its robots, which are similar in size to the Amazon Scout.

"Some people go beyond our robot and jostle it a bit," said Business Insider, co-founder of Starship Technologies, Ahti Heinla. "It's not really a problem, I think, if people have such anger management technique, it'll be fine for us, our robot will continue to roll."

The revealer unveiled from Amazon early in the year and tested the machine in Snohomish County, Washington State, just north of the Amazon headquarters in Seattle. Customers in the test area who place an order on Amazon are eligible to receive Scout robots.

Amazon has not yet confirmed when or where it will extend the service.