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The robot courier company, Starship, mentioned in the article, layed off most of their employees like month ago because their business was not viable anymore. Here's the news article in Estonian, couldn't find anything in English https://www.err.ee/1069888/robotkullerite-tootja-starship-te...

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They temporarily laid off just the low-level operators, think of them as call centre staff or Uber drivers. These are the people who when a robot gets stuck help them cross a street or navigate around an obstacle. Think of them as support side of the business. The only reason being because US universities are on hold because of the coronavirus.

The new product development, software and hardware side is still thriving.

Here's the English version: https://news.err.ee/1070009/starship-technologies-makes-redu...

I live in Tallinn, but haven't once seen a Starship bot, guess I'm in an area not covered yet (Sikupilli).

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