- Make way for more robots bearing lattes and doughnuts for college students.
Starship Technologies has a fleet of 25 mini robots descending upon the George Mason University campus, in Fairfax, Virginia, on Tuesday. The bots will deliver food and drinks to the 40,000 students, faculty, and staff. The first retailers to bring hungry college kids supplies are Starbucks, Blaze Pizza, and Dunkin'. The food and beverages come in what looks like a white cooler on six wheels.
How long will it be before a delivery man is extinct?
Yea I think people will pretty much do it for the novelty or when they are too trashed or when the weather is bad. You do save some delivery people going out in crappy weather with these robots.
Sodexo thanks you for your $4. You do not, however, a business case make. I'm not sure if ramen is still popular in the dorms or not, but I know that both of the community colleges I go to have Little Free Pantries. And I don't know that a slow-moving beer cooler full of PostMates for Rich Kids will seed resentment amongst those who count their dimes but I don't discount the possibility. Now granted - George Mason ain't community college. But I'm not sure this is going to turn out the way Sodexo wants it to.
as a lazy fuck attending an american university it doesn't even take that much effort even: there are vending machines and little convenience stores all over the place this is basically the fucking scooter thing all over again