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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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[–] artyom@piefed.social 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

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...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

When will they set up the catapults to fling deliveries like in Death Stranding?

[–] Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

Clearly, the superior ~~siege~~ delivery engine is a trebuchet.

[–] VAK@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe then they'll improve bike lanes

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago

These are the kind of things that could run on a lane built over the sidewalk...

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Like I can't build drones to steal from them too.

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

I think they've been running around in Milton Keynes, UK for a few years now.