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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.

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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 56 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

A company put these on the campus in town, the robotics engineers built a robot to rob the delivery bots.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 30 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 18 points 17 hours ago

Ah yes, the rob bots, who doesn't know them 😜