Mercedes vans filled with swarming delivery bots could be heading to your hometown

The robots inside the vans will travel the last three miles to your door

Delivery vans containing individual ground-based drones may be the future of home deliveries – and they're set to hit the streets in their first tests.

Mercedes-Benz has created a prototype van with Starship Technologies that allows eight of the company's small delivery vehicles to be stored inside a Sprinter van.

It is said that when a van stuffed with the robots and deliveries for households and offices arrives at a central location, it will then be able to unload the delivery vehicles, which will complete the last leg of the journey to avoid city centre traffic.