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Not the same story, but I followed a related story about another bot crashing a SWAT scene:
Dot is a bit different than most food delivery bots. It’s taller and roomier, and zooms around at a zippy 20 miles per hour, the company claims. That’s because it’s built to travel on roadways and bike lanes, leaving its fellow sidewalk crawlers in the dust.
WTF
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.
No, that's the point
Yes, but like a cow
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...
Maybe then they'll improve bike lanes
When will they set up the catapults to fling deliveries like in Death Stranding?
Clearly, the superior ~~siege~~ delivery 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.
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 😜
