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A little red robot that’s one-tenth the size of a car and can travel up to 20 miles per hour could be the future of automated deliveries at DoorDash. Dot, an electric, street-friendly robot, said hello (yes it can talk) to a group of media representatives on Monday during DoorDash’s Dash Forward event in San Francisco.
Dot was part of DoorDash’s latest technology updates, which included an autonomous delivery platform and the rollout of Smart Scale, a tool restaurants can use to weigh bags to ensure order accuracy.
“After more than 10 billion deliveries, we have data on what works, what breaks and what scales,” Stanley Tang, co-founder and head of DoorDash Labs, said Monday during the Dash Forward event. “Automation in our business only matters when it can scale in the real world.” More
Dogs will think they are mobile fire hydrants, chase them, and do what dogs do naturally.
“Dear, our door dash dinner is on the doorstep…but it looks wet and smells funny”.
These will be for urban and suburban areas only. Time-to-door goes up as population density goes down.
But that’s a secondary issue. Have you ever seen a rural Deer Crossing or similar road sign? Remember all those bullet holes? If Dot gets deployed out in the country, I forecast that many of them will be mistaken for Chupacabras or rabid Gila Monsters or something.
“Hey Uncle AL, is that one of them Sasquatches?” BLAM-BLAM-BLAM
Dumb.. just plain DUMB!
I want a human to be in charge of my food, if I ever get any by delivery–which I don’t anymore as I live in small town. When I lived in the city it was different, but there would then have been more danger for the food to be stolen or tampered with, a gazillion people and immigrants near a university. IMO bad idea!
I must say when I self-deliver an order from Rally’s, for some reason the french-fries never make it home…
I’m pretty particular about the food I buy. I’m not sure I would be interested in who knows who making something, then handing it off to a robot for delivery. Plus I’m 30 minutes to the closest restaurant so a 20 mile an hour robot is not going to cut it. If that robot delivers to a high rise how will it activate the elevators?
Testing in the turd world right here in the good old US of A.
DoorDash must have never heard the legend of HitchBOT and how it met its grisly end on the streets of Philadelphia.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hitchhiking-robot-hitchbot-meets-demise-in-philadelphia/
Now imagine what happens when these Dots hit the streets full of junkies and gang members looking for a free meal.
There was a young girl named Dot
Who survived eating vomit and snot
When she couldn’t get these
She lived on the cheese
She picked with her thumb from her twat
How about get off your ass at least long enough to prepare your own food?
@Wild Bill — That’s DISGUSTING! And I LOVE IT!
If they expect a tip, here’s mine: I predict failure from any possible number of ways.
Damn wild man! Now I want to tell some limericks, but there might be some proper people reading and I’m only about 10 percent Irish.
I saw “I, Robot”.
I know how this ends!
Don’t deploy them things to deliver pizzas on a college campus!
Drunken frat boys will try to see how may can pile on one of them… or at least see how far one guy can go! Midgets ride free!
But who’s going to spit in my drink, steal few fries and impart that essence of curry on my Burger?
God only knows what happens to donuts with those sexy holes in the middle…
…will it work as well as the NYPD Police Bot?
https://iotwreport.com/ai-police-robots-a-flop-in-nyc/
…guess youre not eating tonight…
@Wild Bill
That’s got to be in the top five of really raunchy limericks.
Here’s another:
There was a young woman from the Azores
Whose ass was covered in sores
All the dogs in the street
Would lick the foul meet
That hung, infested, from her drawers.