When Machines Start Talking to Each Other: The Bizarre Choreography of Autonomous Everything

By Futurist Thomas Frey

The Dance Nobody’s Choreographing Yet

We debate whether driverless cars are safe and whether delivery drones will clutter our skies, but we’re missing the more interesting question: what happens when autonomous vehicles, ground robots, and flying drones start coordinating with each other in ways humans never would?

By 2035, our transportation infrastructure won’t just be automated—it will be collaborating in real-time through machine-to-machine negotiations so complex that human traffic management becomes obsolete. The interactions emerging from this coordination will look less like traditional transportation and more like a carefully choreographed dance between machines that have learned to work together in ways we’re only beginning to imagine.

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NYC threatens to seize any Fedex delivery bots on city streets

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In February, FedEx debuted its SameDay Bots, which are parcel delivery robots that use a combination of artificial intelligence and motion sensors to navigate city streets and sidewalks.

Last week, social media users began reporting sightings of the bots in New York City. But based on a tweet from Mayor Bill de Blasio, FedEx never bothered to get permission to test the robots in the Big Apple — and it could be the bots’ undoing.

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