Alphabet to Pack its Digital City With Autonomous ‘Taxibots’
- Sidewalk Labs plans to work with Alphabet’s Waymo unit
- Delivery robots and autonomous trash collection envisioned
The Toronto city skyline.
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Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous vehicle technology will be a big part of its Toronto project to make urban life more Googley.
Sidewalk Labs LLC, a unit of Google parent Alphabet, and Waterfront Toronto unveiled plans to build a digital district in Canada’s largest city. Sidewalk’s official plans filed with the city and released on Tuesday include visions of all sorts of robotic transport: driverless bike-like vehicles, larger self-driving vans, robotic delivery and even autonomous trash collection.