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.
And shut-in, no-tipping undergrads from coast to coast weep.
Are you expected to tip the fucking robot?
Yes.
Once it is tipped on its side, its easier to remove the batteries and motors.
Would be nice if you could tip the actual cook. Like the food preparation chain is visible on the receipt with boxes for sending a small tip. But only after the meal turned out to be amazing.
But overall it’s cool that delivery robots will probably mean an end to tipping culture.
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.
Yes, but like a cow
No, that’s the point
I think that’s why they will miss this type of delivery, as you do not tip?
That would be the most American thing to do.
Based on the thumbnail, I was expecting some kind of vandalism.
I wish… but no just broke college kids trying to eat cheaper
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…
burrito bomber ftw https://www.darwinaerospace.com/burritobomber
Maybe then they’ll improve bike lanes
When will they set up the catapults to fling deliveries like in Death Stranding?
Clearly, the superior
siegedelivery engine is a trebuchet.
Like I can’t build drones to steal from them too.
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.
𝚁𝙾𝙱𝙾𝚃 𝚆𝙰𝚁𝚂
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.
Ah yes, the rob bots, who doesn’t know them 😜
Why would anyone oppose these bots?
They’re an embodiment of the tragedy of the commons. Businesses glut up the public spaces beyond their intended capacity and for unintended uses, then do or pay nothing for the degradation they cause.
Except the tragedy of the commons was a lie made up by Landlords to justify the enclosure of the commons so that people would be forced to work for them under capitalism, and this is the capitalists ruining the commons.
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.
They block sidewalks, they destroy bus stops, they hurt workers
