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Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses (futurism.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 1 hour ago

This sounds like a real application for Doctrow's "Chuffie" from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom... scan the "how's my driving?" QR code on the lid of the bot and downvote... company's bots gets enough downvotes it gets restricted out of the places it's receiving the downvotes from.