They don't look like much more than a couple of containers, stacked side by side and painted black, except for the photovoltaic array on the roof.
Several of them will be popping up in Los Angeles, where Gently is scaling up its first last-mile delivery system, which relies on what the startup calls nano-fulfillment centers.
Anything smaller and you'd have to call these mobile units mailboxes, except this is an exceptionally smart mailbox connected to a network that uses artificial intelligence to generate predictive analytic data to place goods closer to the customer and reduce delivery times.
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