Receive a delivery task. Load the map. Detect blocked paths and choose another route to continue forward. Arrive, authenticate delivery, and receive payment. All these steps involve no human intervention.
That’s what peaq, a company specializing in blockchain infrastructure for autonomous machines, demonstrated today (May 22) in a simulation featuring a robot from Serve Robotics, an American company developing autonomous sidewalk delivery robots.
In the demo, the robot navigates the streets of Seoul using NAVER Maps (South Korea’s leading mapping platform, comparable in size to Google Maps in the market), rerouting in real time when it detects obstacles, and once a delivery is completed. Receive payments in USDT via Tether WDK on the Solana network. The company said there were no human operators involved in the trip.
Although this was a simulation, Peak included a link in its announcement to payments made on the Solana network. Both the payment from the customer to the robot and the payment from the robot to the cafe from which the order was placed are registered on the network.
The following Solscan Explorer screenshot shows one such transaction. Robot transferred 4 USDT ($3.99) to coffeeconfirmed on May 21, 17:28 UTC in block 421247206, with a successful result and a network fee of USD 0.0004. Robot wallets are public and can be searched on peaqscan.
The robot used a marketplace designed for autonomous machines
The simulated version was designed to illustrate peaqOS Scale, a marketplace where robots and autonomous machines are traded. Discover, subscribe and pay for digital services Directly from your own wallet, without any human intervention.
NAVER Maps is the first navigation service available in the peaqOS Scale catalog. At the time of the announcement, 13 other services were listed.– From AI models like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, search and extraction tools like Wolfram Alpha and Exa, Google Data Services, to storage with StableUpload and 2Captcha for interacting with websites that require human verification.
App Store with wallet for machines
According to a statement from the Peak team, peaqOS Scale acts as a catalog of digital services that any peaqOS-powered robot can connect to and use, allowing them to make payments directly from their own wallets without the need for a human operator to approve or manage transactions.
According to this company: The system is omni chain (Multi-chain)This means that you can subscribe and pay for services that run on Solana, but are also hosted on Base Chain (Ethereum’s L2) or Sui, without any friction between the networks.
However, although the flow shown so far was a simulation, Not an operational deployment in real-world situations.
Thirteen services will be available on day one, and an initial catalog has been built on robotic.sh (the marketplace interface). Whether robots operating in real-world situations will eventually adopt this autonomous purchasing and payment model remains an open question with this announcement.
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