College campuses across the country will no longer be swarming with tiny rolling robots.
Starship Technologies, a leading delivery bot company, announced earlier this month that it was ending its university operations and redeploying over a thousand of its meal machines. But the news is just starting to sink in, as various partnered universities all issue official communications mourning the program’s end like obituaries for a celebrity’s passing.
The time has come for the takeout drones to hit the big leagues, as the company intends to focus on doing deliveries for grocery chains and restaurants in cities instead. And shut-in, no-tipping undergrads from coast to coast weep.
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6 hoursAnd shut-in, no-tipping undergrads from coast to coast weep.
Are you expected to tip the fucking robot?
- EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zipEnglish26 minutes
Right?! That’d be insane to tip it. Like do people tip autonomous vehicles when they use them? I guess if there is really a human operator, like what Waymo did with having human drivers take over from time to time, all while claiming to be autonomous. I guess in that case, tipping might make sense, so long at the tip went to the driver of the vehicle. I don’t know if driver control these small robots ever or not.
- jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish5 hours
I think that’s why they will miss this type of delivery, as you do not tip?
Not sure how they expect to roll these out by the thousands without completely clogging up sidewalks and bike lanes…
Zipline is where it’s at…
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish4 hours
When will they set up the catapults to fling deliveries like in Death Stranding?
- allywilson@lemmy.mlEnglish8 hours
I think they’ve been running around in Milton Keynes, UK for a few years now.
A company put these on the campus in town, the robotics engineers built a robot to rob the delivery bots.
I figured that a good percentage of the delivery robots would simply “disappear” from the map and be rebirthed as battle bots in some arena with chainsaw accessories.
- rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish2 hours
They block sidewalks, they destroy bus stops, they hurt workers
- BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
I had a booth at a craft show on a college campus a few months back. The little bastards kept trying to route through the show and were constantly bumping in to tables. They even knocked over a couple of tables at a few vendor stalls, damaging some of the items.
