A partnership between George Mason University and two companies, Sodexo and Starship Technologies has developed a new home delivery service for food and drinks to students on campus based on autonomous robots.
The demand for food at home is already worth billions of dollars: two US companies, Postmates and DoorDash, are already worth 2 billion and 7 billion respectively.
A limited university area is the best platform of possible testing: the results prove it, with over 10.000 deliveries already made with a 0% error margin.
Currently you can order food through 5 major fast food chains, receiving it until 2 in the morning: once fully operational, the service will be able to operate 24 hours a day. “We have also created 24 jobs for the management and maintenance of the robot fleet,” they say the developers.
In these parts, the calculation of the places lost by "riders" who do not deliver to homes even at night without ever stopping is easily done: yet the future of deliveries, whether we like it or not, seems closer to these cubes with wheels than to willing kids on bicycles.
