A robot delivered my dinner
Posted by MUNKRVVSH
Posted on November 13, 2017
Last night I found myself running toward my house to meet a robot. I had just returned
from a weekend of surviving on GPRS internet in one of the most remote parts of the UK, so I needed a good dinner. During my trip home, I ordered Chinese from a local restaurant, expecting a human to deliver it at 7PM. Surprisingly, minutes after my order I received a text telling me a robot would deliver my order a lot earlier than I was expecting. What?!
After a mad dash involving a train, tram, Uber, bus, and my suitcase, I reached my apartment block to find an adorable little robot sitting outside. Several people walked past it without even acknowledging its odd existence, probably because it looked like a futuristic letter carrier’s delivery trolley. “Your Just Eat delivery has arrived, please come outside the building and unlock the robot from here,” read a text message with a link to unlock the robot. I clicked the unlock button from a website and the hood of the robot popped open to reveal my dinner. Once I had grabbed it, I hit the lock and return button and the six-wheeled robot disappeared back to its base around half a mile away. Simple. https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/25/16024470/starship-technologies-robot-delivery-just-eat
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