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The rise of Personal Delivery Devices: Will a robot deliver my items? By Aditya Abeysinghe   Ever since 1920s, drones have gained popularity for their lightweight, remote controllable freight delivery nature. They have been used for military activities, logistics, agriculture and for recreational activities too. Drones are aerial, terrestrial or aquatic in nature, although, aerial and terrestrial drones are mostly used today. Aerial drones are used mostly for lightweight, fast transport and terrestrial drones are used mostly for heavyweight transport. Of these two types, a new class of drones have emerged in the past few years for transport of goods or rather packages, between sellers and clients requesting items from them. They are collectively called Personal Delivery Devices (PDD) s and are classified in metropolitan areas as a class of pedestrians. Companies such as Google and Amazon have developed aerial drones for package delivery and high priority supply delivery. Hence, ...