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.
And shut-in, no-tipping undergrads from coast to coast weep.
Are you expected to tip the fucking robot?
Yes, but like a cow
Yes.
Once it is tipped on its side, its easier to remove the batteries and motors.
I think that’s why they will miss this type of delivery, as you do not tip?
No no, this is a delivery robot.
No, the article is saying that it is why these robots were popular. Because unlike a human delivery person, there was no tip expected for the robots.
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.
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.
𝚁𝙾𝙱𝙾𝚃 𝚆𝙰𝚁𝚂
Based on the thumbnail, I was expecting some kind of vandalism.
I wish… but no just broke college kids trying to eat cheaper
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Every time is see one of these fuckers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5o1c1MJb_Oc
Why would anyone oppose these bots?
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.
With all due respect, that sounds like it should and could have been solved in a way other than banning a popular service.
Sure, but even if it could, they probably shouldn’t just keep running in to stuff and routing through areas where there are known collisions. If those are problems they can’t seem to solve, then maybe it’s a product that shouldn’t exist.
They’re an embodiment of the tragedy of the commons. Businesses glut up the public spaces beyond their intended capacity and for unintended uses, then do or pay nothing for the degradation they cause.
Except the tragedy of the commons was a lie made up by Landlords to justify the enclosure of the commons so that people would be forced to work for them under capitalism, and this is the capitalists ruining the commons.
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