Robot food delivery to your college dorm!

[Ohiogal]

Wow, why didn't they have this back when I was in school???

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It’s hard to say how a fleet of robots suddenly appearing on a college campus may have been received five or 10 years ago. But in 2019 — when robots are piloting vehicles, tending bars, baking bread and prowling grocery stores — the arrival of 25 Igloo cooler-sized delivery robots elicits curious glances and smiles from most students but little else. (To be fair, occasional robot head-patting and photo-taking was witnessed.)

That isn’t to suggest the machines — created by the Bay Area start-up Starship Technologies — went unnoticed. Quite the opposite.

During their first day in operation Tuesday, the demand for robotic delivery services from four campus dining establishments was so great during dinner hours that school officials had to pull the plug, shutting off orders so that robots weren’t operating late into the night, far behind schedule.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/25/how-one-university-changed-overnight-when-it-let-semi-autonomous-robots-roam-its-campus/?utm_term=.d1419a2033e0

[Blues Heron]

1. new sport - Cooler surfing!

[MineralMan]

2. That's pretty funny, but...

As fast delivery systems being bringing stuff to people, I think we're going to see a rise in the number of people who almost never leave the place where they live. That's not good.

[Ohiogal]

4. I agree

Part of what made the college experience what it was .... was venturing out on a blizzardy cold night to hike over to the cafeteria building to meet up with your friends ...... have a little bit of social hour ..... complain about the ungodly food ..... etc. etc.

But I guess that's old fashioned.....

[MineralMan]

7. Exactly.

[BSdetect]

3. Perhaps they will have robots that offer intravenous injections to save the students energy

[suffragette]

5. This made me think of Douglas Adams' game, Starship Titanic with all of its malfunctioning bots.

[briv1016]

6. We're just going to have to accept the fact that

someone is going to try and stick there penis inside one of these robots.