A European technology company is partnering with food delivery company Postmates to test five ground robot delivery machines on the busy streets of Washington, D.C.
Residents and tourists walking around the district's Northwest quadrant started spotting the six-wheel robots around town this week. The machines were created by Starship Technologies, which is led by the cofounders of Skype.
"Our vision revolves around three zeroes – zero cost, zero waiting time and zero environmental impact. We want to do to local deliveries what Skype did to telecommunications," Ahti Heinla, CEO at Starship Technologies, told Fox-5.
The machines carry food and other items inside their hulls. The container opens when the robot arrives at its destination and the customer confirms it has arrived.
Each robot has nine cameras onboard, which keep it from running into people and objects. The moving machines are also free from CO2 emissions. If successful in their U.S. trial, could drive down the cost of deliveries, the company said in a press release, though possibly at the cost of jobs for human delivery runners.
The robots are currently only running during daylight hours as part of test projects in the nation's capital and Redlands, Calif., where Door Dash is using the machines. The D.C. Council will have to decide whether to allow the robots go to full throttle. Postmates plans to expand the use of the robots if the district approves and trial users like them.
>dystopian future where gazelle and hawk like robots, transfer food and resources from environmental dome to environmental dome, while poor primitives hunt the robots on a hellish landscape of decaying urban sprawl, alluding back to mans time on the savahana or tundra hunting parties
Jacob Bailey
No machine is safe
Christian Moore
what protects them against vandalism or Theft?
>zero environmental impact Why would a Pizza-delivery Service care about enviromental Impact? >could drive down the cost of deliveries Why is a Robot supposedly providing better service when the Pizzaguy brings be my food to my 2nd floor Apartment? >Each robot has nine cameras onboard, A lot of Tech that can break, repair costs of several Robots have to be cheaper than a Pizzaguy and his Car Maintance
Matthew Wilson
This Niggers and shitskin minorities ruin ANY chance of cool futuristic automated technology without it being vandalized
Isaac Allen
>somewhere in the ruins of New York 100 years from now, a father is teaching his sons how to track and bring down a KFC delivery bot.
Nicholas Clark
100% this, it's why asian countries have all the cool shit
Nolan Barnes
In D.C.? It's like they want their robots to be stolen
Austin Jones
Nigs have a natural hatred of robots, or anything that could pull them from grassy plains of Africa.
Joshua Morgan
niggers will put a stop to this project within a month
the company press release will be something really vague that everybody will interpret as "niggers"
Landon Stewart
FPBP
Pretty much goes without saying chimps would destroy these if they felt no repercussion would happen to them
Zachary Harris
>Is this a practical use of technology? Muhammad will make pressure cookers which look like this for events with public crowds.
Jose Martinez
>drug mules already being made redundant.
Julian Turner
I love how these people really think this sort of shit is going to fucking work. No wonder the west is failing.
Robert Jenkins
Niggers murdered a pizza delivery guy just for the pizza. They will 100% smash a robot.
Christian Reed
niggers fear what they dont understand
Joseph Torres
>Filthadelphia >we didn't really expect it, Zeller told CNN >we see this as kind of a random act and one that could have occurred anywhere
Jeremiah Hall
There's a reason why NuTonomy chose Singapore for their first automated taxis.
yeah, but only in predominantly white neighborhoods
Nathan Gonzalez
>Our vision revolves around three zeroes – zero cost, zero waiting time and zero environmental impact
It's already failed all three.
Jordan Hughes
Is this real? I had a mcdonalds burger once. It tasted like plastic. My wife always has a big pot of soup on the hob. I bake the bread. The soup varies. Today it's mushroom. It's up to her to decide; what she buys at the market. My favourite is leek and potato. Soup is a conveyance of love.
Michael Edwards
CIVIL
Levi Collins
got any for me dad?
Asher Wright
its a cute robot i hope he stays safe
Connor Lee
>tfw dad is too busy taking pictures of dindin to show Sup Forums to tell you it is ready.
Justin Adams
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR BEGGING FOR TIPS STUPID BURGERS
fuck you and your entitlement bullshit
Matthew Gutierrez
Guys don't worry. Nigs attack, the robot unfolds it's Twin barrel 50. Cal. I get my burger king, and the neighborhood is safe.
Dominic Wright
hopefully those people remember to put the condom on, because holy shit they're the ones that need it.
Hunter Brooks
Made in estonia ;^)
Oliver Butler
I dont know how it is in Germany, but here in Michigan, delivery guy is responsible for repairs to his own vehicle. Store doesnt give any extra cash at all for that. One of my friends was a delivery guy at like five different places and its why he ultimately had to stop, his car fell apart from it essentially.
Jayden Gomez
The last time anyone offered niggers shit for free, they ended up picking cotton for 300 years.
Ain't nobody got time for dats.
Oliver Reed
lmao remember when you used to buy a coke and sometimes there would be a redemption code under the cap for a free coke? this shit like here is literally a free meal for the first person who sees it.
Adrian Bennett
Robots should be allowed to defend themselves.
Bentley Foster
>testing new way of doing things with prototype REEEEE IT'S NOT GONNA WORK
Ryan Price
not bad
Brody Perry
lol yeah people who have to work over 40 hours a week to just make ends meet are so entitled. Why can't the poors just die off
Grayson Fisher
Mexico on suicide watch
Logan Sullivan
why do niggers always have to ruin for everybody
Nathaniel Torres
make sure to still eat solid tough chewy food. Most people don't work their jaws enough anymore, especially important for kids, results in less dental work.
