https://nuro.ai/texas They partnered with Kroger's and Houston was selected as a test city along with Scottsdale.
That is a crowded marketplace. Good luck to them. The instacart driver at least carries the groceries up to my porch. Maybe they can partner with Boston Dynamics to have a "Spot" pull my groceries from the shelf, bag them, and carry them to my kitchen. I was listening to something the other day about how many of the services that are implied to be run by AI by Google and Amazon and the like are actually farmed out to Mechanical Turk type services and handled by some dude in a call center in Bangladesh. The Roman Empire never was much interested in labor saving devices and machines because slaves were cheap and plentiful. A low end meat robot is much cheaper than a fancy silicon and steel model.
...I would most certainly include water systems (plumbing/aquaducts) as labor saving devices... In our lingo today, wouldn't it be "Autonomous Water Delivery"
I actually enjoy going to the grocery store and looking around. I attempted the HEB curb side pick up but it was too much of a pain finding what I wanted online. I'm sure this is great for those who need it.
