Imagine ordering a bulky 40-kilogram shipment of toys or library books and having a high-powered drone whisk it across a river, deposit it onto an autonomous land vehicle and watch a robot roll directly up to your apartment door. In Jinju, a bustling city in southeastern Korea, that futuristic logistics vision is currently being tested in everyday residential life. The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) said Friday that it is conducting real-world trials of an advanced multimodal delivery system capable of hauling heavy cargo up to 40 kilograms through densely populated urban neighborhoods. Running through Saturday in Jinju’s Innovation City, the field test marks a critical operational milestone: moving autonomous delivery out of isolated rural test zones and directly into crowded high-rise residential complexes. The government-funded project, backed by a 14.9 billion won ($11.2 million) state investment through December, pairs heavy-duty logistics drones with self-driving ground robots developed alongside the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. The primary goal