---
title: "This Self-Driving Car Uses a Fold-Out Robot Arm to Deliver Parcels"
description: "A self-driving vehicle named Lotte is taking autonomous delivery to the next level, eliminating the need for a human to immediately retrieve their package."
date: "2018-12-03"
modified: "2018-12-03"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/autonomous-delivery-vehicle-lotte"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Self-Driving Vehicles"
tags:
  - "autonomous delivery"
  - "Autonomous vehicles"
  - "cleveron"
---

# This Self-Driving Car Uses a Fold-Out Robot Arm to Deliver Parcels

![A self-driving vehicle named Lotte is taking autonomous delivery to the next level, eliminating the need for a human to immediately retrieve their package.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/autonomous-delivery-vehicle-lotte.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Cleveron\</em\>*

## The Last Mile

This self-driving car can now do more than just transport packages to customers' homes — it can actually deliver the goods.

On Friday, Cleveron — the tech firm behind [Walmart's online pickup towers](<https://blog.walmart.com/innovation/20180405/hundreds-more-high-tech-pickup-towers-are-headed-your-way>) — unveiled a self-driving robotic courier named [Lotte](<https://cleveron.eu/news/world-s-first-courier-robot-prototype>) at an Estonian robotics conference.

Based on a [video](<https://youtu.be/jgBMMspyY0w>) of Lotte in action, the delivery vehicle can not only drive itself to a secure locker, but even place a package inside with a fold-out robotic arm — eliminating the need for any human intervention.

https://youtu.be/jgBMMspyY0w

## Testing Grounds

Cleveron plans to begin testing Lotte on Estonian streets in 2020. Once the system is in action, CEO Arno Kutt thinks it'll prove to be a win-win for both retailers and customers**.**

"\[T\]he robot courier will replace human labor, which makes the last mile delivery cheaper," he [told *Business Insider*](<https://www.businessinsider.com/driverless-car-delivers-packages-without-humans-2018-12>). "This in turn helps e-commerce grow even more — it will be less expensive (we eliminate labor costs) and extremely convenient (the parcels are waiting for you safely in your own parcel locker)."

## Next-Level Delivery

This is far from the first [autonomous delivery vehicle](<https://futurism.com/self-driving-delivery-ford-walmart>) we've seen, but it is one of the first to completely remove humans from the process — typically, the customer would need to actually retrieve their order from the vehicle.

Of course, it'll be a while before every customer of Walmart and the like has access to a secure parcel locker, but this video is an intriguing vision of the future of retail — and one that might have a decent chance of actually coming true.

**READ MORE:** [This Futuristic Car Could Solve a Multibillion-Dollar Problem Facing Amazon, Walmart, and Target](<https://www.businessinsider.com/driverless-car-delivers-packages-without-humans-2018-12>) \[*Business Insider*\]

***More on autonomous delivery: [Ford and Walmart Want Self-Driving Cars to Deliver Your Groceries](<https://futurism.com/self-driving-delivery-ford-walmart>)***

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)