A partnership between George Mason University and two companies, Sodexo and Starship Technologies has developed a new home-based food and drink delivery service 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 possible testing platform: the results prove it, with over 10.000 deliveries already made with a 0% margin of error.
Currently you can order food through 5 major fast food chains, receiving it until 2 in the morning: when 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, ” 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.
