Delivery robots have seen a large rise in use by NHS staff in Milton Keynes since the lockdown was introduced a month ago.
Despite the rise in demand, the robots have been delivering to health workers free of charge.
"Right now we are offering free delivery to all NHS workers within the community. We want to make life a little bit easier for these people in these very, very stressful times," said Henry Harris-Burland of Starship.Starship Technologies, the company which own the machines, does not charge NHS workers for delivery
"Lots of them are doing...80-hour weeks and they don't have time to go to the local grocery store, so they use our robots for their shopping," he said."We're honoured that we can be part of that solution." Mr Harris-Burland said his company's machines had completed 100,000 autonomous deliveries in the town."Lots of the residents have been reaching out to us online asking us to deliver into their neighbourhood," he said.
"We're doing everything we can as quickly as possible to expand to offer this service to more people, especially at this really important time."
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