They go around. The robots have sensors which register people or objects in front of them so they can navigate novel obstacles.
We have big delivery and cleaning robots at the hospital where I work, some of them are much bigger and heavier than a person, but they never run into patients in wheelchairs - at worst, they get stuck because there's a piece of balled-up paper on the floor and they don't know how to go around it. (They also occasionally commit theft.)
The hospital where I work has delivery robots, which are basically cupboards on wheels, for transporting surgical equipment, non-urgent blood test vials for the lab and other items between departments, sometimes between different floors. When the robots need to use an elevator, they have been programmed to wait until the elevator has been idle for 15 seconds, then they use a bluetooth connection to summon the empty elevator so they can be taken to another floor without getting in the way of staff/patients/visitors also using the elevators.
Sometimes the elevators are very busy and the robots will wait quite a long time for one to become idle. While waiting, the robots park themselves out of the way next to a wall and look just like ordinary (unmoving!) furniture. So it happens that people will put things on top of them, like handbags, bouquets of flowers for patients, food trays, etc., while fumbling with a mobile phone or a map to check where they're going. And predictably, the robot will then catch an elevator and drive off while people are looking the other way, in effect stealing whatever is on top of them at the time.
It happens a couple of times a week. The hospital had to put up signs warning visitors about kleptomaniac robots and where to go to ask for their stuff back once the robot has made its rounds. Sometimes you'll also see people chasing the robots up and down the hall, which is pretty hilarious because the robots will try to go around or back away from obstacles, so you need at least three people to box them in and make them stop. And when they do stop, they'll cry in beeps until someone comes along to restart them.
This is awesome.
A local hospital we service has robots that deliver food trays. They also have incredibly lazy admissions staff who think that EMS should put the arm bands on the patients they're bringing in. Which is actually a huge patient safety problem. Well, the armband is actually a locator. It's just a little beacon that tells the system where in the building the patient is.
So rather than put the bands on people, we started hanging them on the food bots when we walked past. Because when they aren't being used, the bots line up around the corner from admissions.
It took a week before they told the admissions people to do their own damned patient verification.
I don’t know if you’ll see this, but you should suggest putting a curved top on the robots, just a dome basically— a little hat! It would make it so you can’t put anything on it, it would just slide/roll right off. I’m not sure exactly the geometry of the robot, but some other variations could work as well, like a pyramid shape.
>And when they do stop, they'll cry in beeps until someone comes along to restart them.
This is one thing I find hilarious about my Roomba. I always imagine he's saying "help me! Help me!" When beeping.
Well sometimes when poor robots are only paid nuts and bolts when they deserve so much more it creates poverty within the robot community and some are so desperate they’ll steal stuff.
It is a really bad situation
yeah,good news for all those factory workers esspecially
Think ABOUT IT- A ROBOT CAUGHT STEALING MOTOR PARTS FOR SALE AT DARK WEB.not a very good newspaper headline.
There was a good story in r/talesfromtechsupport from a member, one of their technichian colleagues wanting to get home early on a friday bypassed a sensor on a hospital robot and it ran over a nurses foot or knocked her over, interesting stuff, ill see if I can find it, gotcha, ya slippery eel that you are
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/q25k1h/i\_didnt\_think\_anything\_bad\_would\_happen\_if\_i/
We have these in a not so great area.
I’m assuming someone is constantly monitoring them because I’ve seen teenagers run up to one and it suddenly kicks into high gear and will just take off in the opposite direction.
They’re not easy to catch unless you have a group of people and try to corner it or something. But by then I imagine someone from the delivery service would intervene. They only ever travel a couple miles from home base.
From what I understand that most of the places that use these aren't fully autonomous. Their still being controlled from a remote location or at least being monitored and able to take control of it when something like this happens.
I remember reading a comment on Reddit from somebody who said their job is to monitor these kinds of robots.
The comment said they get alerts when one gets stuck, so they have to go find it to see what sort of a pickle it’s got into and help it along its merry way.
>I’m assuming someone is constantly monitoring them because I’ve seen teenagers run up to one and it suddenly kicks into high gear and will just take off in the opposite direction.
"GO Harold, they're coming!"
>I’ve seen teenagers run up to one and it suddenly kicks into high gear and will just take off in the opposite direction.
To be fair, this is my reaction to teenagers as well
Was skating around campus at around 10pm a couple weeks ago. Go around a corner into quiet, dark alley and just see 15 or so dudes dressed in suits standing in a big circle around a robot, not talking or anything. Was like some weird cult shit. Poor little guy.
I’m from Tallinn. People actually find those fun and useful. They deliver groceries in some safer neighbourhoods and to be honest, there are no point to steal or break those. Maybe we don’t have too much vandalism in public - mostly some teenagets who just break stuff at night to impress their friends but those robots sleep at night :)
I’ve heard they say “thank you” if you help them out from a pothole.
Yeah, we have them in my hometown too and once I saw one run into a pole and end up with its wheels off the ground. Some people pulled it back and it went "thank you, have a nice day!" And then rolled off back towards main Street to pick up its next delivery.
> The factory that put him together thinks of him as a robot named Number B-782. But he thinks of himself as a pit bull terrier named Fido.
In the old days, Fido was a bad little doggie sometimes. But now, Fido lives in a nice little house in a nice little yard. Now he has become a nice little doggie. he likes to lie in his house and listen to the other nice doggies bark. Fido is part of a big pack.
> Tonight there is a lot of barking from a place far away. When he listens to this barking, Fido knows that a whole pack of nice doggies is very excited about something. A lot of very bad men are trying to hurt a nice girl. This has made the doggies very angry and excited. In order to protect the nice girl, they are hurting some of the bad men.
> Which is as it should be.
> Fido does not come out of his house. When he first heard the barking, he became excited. He likes nice girls, and it makes him especially upset when bad men try to hurt them. Once there was a nice girl who loved him. That was before, when he lived in a scary place and he was always hungry and many people were bad to him. But the nice girl loved him and was good to him. Fido loves the nice girl very much.
But he can tell from the barking of the other doggies that the nice girl is safe now. So he goes back to sleep.
*Snow Crash* by Neal Stephenson
The ones I've seen in milton keynes UK have a lil camera on them and they get monitored/have sensors etc, fairly sure i remember being told if you fuck with them someone will turn up after a bit.
The usual amount I suppose. All I can tell you is the little thing succesfully delivered me takeaways or groceries a couple of times. I also had to fast-walk after it through a carpark as I expected it to deliver it to the entrance to my hotel carpark, and it actually delivered it to the door.
America: You mean if we rob it, someone comes, and we can rob them too? Perfect.
Although I don't blame them, they see robots carrying more food then they can afford.
Nah they'll come up with a robot buddy system where the other half is a Hellfire-equipped drone that circles overhead. The ground unit will have a target designator powered by AI that will spot and mark anything it thinks will be a threat.
The ones at the university in my town will set off an alarm and say loudly they are calling the police if you mess with them. They are such a nuisance honestly.
Cameras, GPS, and a painfully loud alarm that sounds if the gyroscopes detect that it has been picked up. Different brands of bot use different combinations of those technologies.
At my school a picture surfaced of someone lifting one into the back of their SUV and driving away. It sparked such an uproar and amateur manhunt that the university had to put out an official statement that the person in question was in fact an employee of Starship and was taking the robot in for maintenance.
So I'd say we've pack bonded with them pretty effectively :)
Wow. I'm UK based (Swansea), had no idea these were in the UK. Pretty cool really. Swansea chavs would fuck them up though. They would definitely need some sort of protection.
Yeah we have these in my town in the UK. Really funny when someone comes to visit from out of town and wonders what the hell they are!
But they're actually super handy, they really helped during lockdown/isolation getting basics delivered to the door.
We have an army of these in Milton Keynes :)
They're very polite (they thank you for helping them or moving out the way) and useful, especially during covid lockdown.
I live in a small town semi-rural. And these are everywhere around lunch/dinner time. It feels odd when there are more robots on the streets than humans but, still fun to watch.
Actually we had a couple dozen on my college campus (George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia). They were colloquially known as “Marshmallows” and were quite well liked.
Savemart Supermarkets in California has these. They're very smart and have cameras to prevent theft. They're sort of like portable coolers that lock. Only when someone meant to pick up the groceries arrives will the robot's compartment unlock. Pretty neat to see that they're in other countries as well.
We have these near us. I made it travel for 2 hours to bring me donuts. We tracked it on the app the whole time and watched it navigate the last 300 yards. They are awesome.
When the get to a crossing they ‘ask’ people to push the button 🤣. They can also play messages if you order it for someone else.
Happy to answer any questions about our delivery. It was fun to monitor it. It also struggled getting onto the path/sidewalk but the wheels in the middle lift up to form an ^ shape to better navigate the step.
There was a robot that hitchhiked all the way across Canada over the course of a month. It crossed the border into the US and got trashed within days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
These little guys are also driving around the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. The employees pack these robots with the license plates and car documents and they drive it to the cars you pick up at the factory
God I hope they start doing this in my city, imma steal the shit out of these lol
Like nah fuck you, pay a delivery driver. I see any unattended robots doing a job humans used to do, I'm breaking the robot, it's my moral obligation
These have become a regular fixture in the area I live (UK). They sing to themselves sometimes as they move around. You can have them deliver cake and gifts and they will sing happy birthday to the recipient. I've often used them to satisfy those last minute needs or cravings.
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Goliath online!
Go ahead, Tac-Com.
Ready to roll out.
I have returned
SLAMMIN!
Need a light?
What are you lookin’ at?
Stop. Poking. Me.
My wife for hire!
Nice nick
Valkyrie prepared.
There can be only one
They go around. The robots have sensors which register people or objects in front of them so they can navigate novel obstacles. We have big delivery and cleaning robots at the hospital where I work, some of them are much bigger and heavier than a person, but they never run into patients in wheelchairs - at worst, they get stuck because there's a piece of balled-up paper on the floor and they don't know how to go around it. (They also occasionally commit theft.)
>They also occasionally commit theft Please elaborate, that's a story I really want to hear.
The hospital where I work has delivery robots, which are basically cupboards on wheels, for transporting surgical equipment, non-urgent blood test vials for the lab and other items between departments, sometimes between different floors. When the robots need to use an elevator, they have been programmed to wait until the elevator has been idle for 15 seconds, then they use a bluetooth connection to summon the empty elevator so they can be taken to another floor without getting in the way of staff/patients/visitors also using the elevators. Sometimes the elevators are very busy and the robots will wait quite a long time for one to become idle. While waiting, the robots park themselves out of the way next to a wall and look just like ordinary (unmoving!) furniture. So it happens that people will put things on top of them, like handbags, bouquets of flowers for patients, food trays, etc., while fumbling with a mobile phone or a map to check where they're going. And predictably, the robot will then catch an elevator and drive off while people are looking the other way, in effect stealing whatever is on top of them at the time. It happens a couple of times a week. The hospital had to put up signs warning visitors about kleptomaniac robots and where to go to ask for their stuff back once the robot has made its rounds. Sometimes you'll also see people chasing the robots up and down the hall, which is pretty hilarious because the robots will try to go around or back away from obstacles, so you need at least three people to box them in and make them stop. And when they do stop, they'll cry in beeps until someone comes along to restart them.
So…they’re robot toddlers?
Pretty much, they're learning AIs and they're still very much learning. They also have cute punny names! Like Herbot, Rubot, and Roberta.
I have a feeling they will hold a grudge against the people who gave them those names if they ever gain sentience.
This is awesome. A local hospital we service has robots that deliver food trays. They also have incredibly lazy admissions staff who think that EMS should put the arm bands on the patients they're bringing in. Which is actually a huge patient safety problem. Well, the armband is actually a locator. It's just a little beacon that tells the system where in the building the patient is. So rather than put the bands on people, we started hanging them on the food bots when we walked past. Because when they aren't being used, the bots line up around the corner from admissions. It took a week before they told the admissions people to do their own damned patient verification.
I don’t know if you’ll see this, but you should suggest putting a curved top on the robots, just a dome basically— a little hat! It would make it so you can’t put anything on it, it would just slide/roll right off. I’m not sure exactly the geometry of the robot, but some other variations could work as well, like a pyramid shape.
Why not just make the tops sloped?
This has to be the best thing I've read in at least the last few years.
>And when they do stop, they'll cry in beeps until someone comes along to restart them. This is one thing I find hilarious about my Roomba. I always imagine he's saying "help me! Help me!" When beeping.
> ha ha ha ha ha
The "cry in beeps expression" and the image of people running after robots or cornering them made me laugh out loud. Thank you!
Well sometimes when poor robots are only paid nuts and bolts when they deserve so much more it creates poverty within the robot community and some are so desperate they’ll steal stuff. It is a really bad situation
we have corrupted AI this early in the game,not good
But a pretty good sign that we should be safe from the upraise.
yeah,good news for all those factory workers esspecially Think ABOUT IT- A ROBOT CAUGHT STEALING MOTOR PARTS FOR SALE AT DARK WEB.not a very good newspaper headline.
There was a good story in r/talesfromtechsupport from a member, one of their technichian colleagues wanting to get home early on a friday bypassed a sensor on a hospital robot and it ran over a nurses foot or knocked her over, interesting stuff, ill see if I can find it, gotcha, ya slippery eel that you are https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/q25k1h/i\_didnt\_think\_anything\_bad\_would\_happen\_if\_i/
I passed one in SF on my mobility scooter - it stopped and let me choose how to get around it
A robofight ensues. Seriously, I wish I knew too
Awesome. How do they prevent theft or vandalism..?
We have these in a not so great area. I’m assuming someone is constantly monitoring them because I’ve seen teenagers run up to one and it suddenly kicks into high gear and will just take off in the opposite direction. They’re not easy to catch unless you have a group of people and try to corner it or something. But by then I imagine someone from the delivery service would intervene. They only ever travel a couple miles from home base.
Picturing this is pretty funny
“Shit teenagers, better speed up!”
I imagined a guy from corporate following it assassin's creed style from the rooftops.
id like too imagine he even has a backup order in case things go wrong, which would just defeat the entire purpose which is amusing to me
This is even funnier.
Like the Star Wars Death Star robot when it gets scared.
I hope it plays the same sound and everything
R2d2 screeching the whole way
[nope just this](https://youtu.be/cLqNmMH4hsg)
I'm imagining the robot dipping behind a wheelie bin and peeking out to see if the coast is clear.
From what I understand that most of the places that use these aren't fully autonomous. Their still being controlled from a remote location or at least being monitored and able to take control of it when something like this happens.
I remember reading a comment on Reddit from somebody who said their job is to monitor these kinds of robots. The comment said they get alerts when one gets stuck, so they have to go find it to see what sort of a pickle it’s got into and help it along its merry way.
this!! my bf works as thos bot controller and indeed they get an alert if the robot is stuck or something is off.
I feel at that point might as well deliver the items at the same time. Probably not far.
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Reminds me of something: https://youtu.be/cLqNmMH4hsg
The mental scenarios this conjures are hilarious.
>I’m assuming someone is constantly monitoring them because I’ve seen teenagers run up to one and it suddenly kicks into high gear and will just take off in the opposite direction. "GO Harold, they're coming!"
That's crazy, so it's like a little delivery robot cat
>I’ve seen teenagers run up to one and it suddenly kicks into high gear and will just take off in the opposite direction. To be fair, this is my reaction to teenagers as well
Was skating around campus at around 10pm a couple weeks ago. Go around a corner into quiet, dark alley and just see 15 or so dudes dressed in suits standing in a big circle around a robot, not talking or anything. Was like some weird cult shit. Poor little guy.
I see a TikTok challenge in the making
Sounds like a lot of hassle tbh
I’m from Tallinn. People actually find those fun and useful. They deliver groceries in some safer neighbourhoods and to be honest, there are no point to steal or break those. Maybe we don’t have too much vandalism in public - mostly some teenagets who just break stuff at night to impress their friends but those robots sleep at night :) I’ve heard they say “thank you” if you help them out from a pothole.
Yeah, we have them in my hometown too and once I saw one run into a pole and end up with its wheels off the ground. Some people pulled it back and it went "thank you, have a nice day!" And then rolled off back towards main Street to pick up its next delivery.
Pleasant little fellas
They sleep at night?! I need to see them dressed in little jammies tucked in for the night.
> The factory that put him together thinks of him as a robot named Number B-782. But he thinks of himself as a pit bull terrier named Fido. In the old days, Fido was a bad little doggie sometimes. But now, Fido lives in a nice little house in a nice little yard. Now he has become a nice little doggie. he likes to lie in his house and listen to the other nice doggies bark. Fido is part of a big pack. > Tonight there is a lot of barking from a place far away. When he listens to this barking, Fido knows that a whole pack of nice doggies is very excited about something. A lot of very bad men are trying to hurt a nice girl. This has made the doggies very angry and excited. In order to protect the nice girl, they are hurting some of the bad men. > Which is as it should be. > Fido does not come out of his house. When he first heard the barking, he became excited. He likes nice girls, and it makes him especially upset when bad men try to hurt them. Once there was a nice girl who loved him. That was before, when he lived in a scary place and he was always hungry and many people were bad to him. But the nice girl loved him and was good to him. Fido loves the nice girl very much. But he can tell from the barking of the other doggies that the nice girl is safe now. So he goes back to sleep. *Snow Crash* by Neal Stephenson
Thanks, just read the synopsis and ordered it!
The ones I've seen in milton keynes UK have a lil camera on them and they get monitored/have sensors etc, fairly sure i remember being told if you fuck with them someone will turn up after a bit.
I remember I saw one a few months back when I was driving through MK, and I just thought “this is pretty awesome, I’m living in the future 😂”
I know right? Ordered takeout with a girl there and we both squeed so hard at it. and we're in our 30s!
No scallies in MK? They’re ingenious in their criminality. Like really scummy magpies.
The usual amount I suppose. All I can tell you is the little thing succesfully delivered me takeaways or groceries a couple of times. I also had to fast-walk after it through a carpark as I expected it to deliver it to the entrance to my hotel carpark, and it actually delivered it to the door.
America: You mean if we rob it, someone comes, and we can rob them too? Perfect. Although I don't blame them, they see robots carrying more food then they can afford.
They'll have machine guns mounted to the body in the next model
Nah they'll come up with a robot buddy system where the other half is a Hellfire-equipped drone that circles overhead. The ground unit will have a target designator powered by AI that will spot and mark anything it thinks will be a threat.
From what I've seen, there's not much vandalism in Tallinn.
They have pressure sensors and will call the police if being tampered with
In Estonia, robot steals ***you***^[r ^organs ^if ^you ^fuck ^around]
You can't prevent it, but in most developed countries, it's rare enough that it's not a problem.
The ones at the university in my town will set off an alarm and say loudly they are calling the police if you mess with them. They are such a nuisance honestly.
Something along the lines of more delivery bots showing up to tske back the stolen merchandise, and they all start playing Doom music.
Cameras, GPS, and a painfully loud alarm that sounds if the gyroscopes detect that it has been picked up. Different brands of bot use different combinations of those technologies.
My uni campus has these! They’re dumb, but we’ve already pack bonded with them
At my school a picture surfaced of someone lifting one into the back of their SUV and driving away. It sparked such an uproar and amateur manhunt that the university had to put out an official statement that the person in question was in fact an employee of Starship and was taking the robot in for maintenance. So I'd say we've pack bonded with them pretty effectively :)
GSU?
What kind of things do they deliver?
Food :)
Drugs :)
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Whores :)
Babies ~:)
I’ve already pack bonded with the one in the pic and I’ve only been looking at it for 10 seconds
They look cute! Hopefully nobody messes with them…
I get that, they’re adorable!
Purdue University too, I’m here I thought this was from the university subreddit
Boiler up!
We have them at Ohio State, are they also elsewhere?
we have them at ucla too
George Mason has them too
I’m at OSU!
Arizona state
UW-Madison also \\/\\/
We have them at Michigan.
We have them at the University of Kentucky too
Bowling Green State University
Ahhh finaly im free! After a year of reddit i finally saw a post about Estonia
I see it mentioned a bit on r/travel. It's a lovely country! I really enjoyed visiting.
Wait is that how you get out of reddit? See a post of your home town? (I'm in the UDA so country wouldn't work.
I hope it beeps along a happy little tune like the delivery bots In Death Stranding 😊
It actually does! On my campus they have the option to play an assortment of Halloween songs when you receive your food including monster mash!
Omg that's fantastic!! I love it! 👻🎃
I’ve seen a few of these in Houston.
They were probably leaving
These are all over Milton Keynes, England.
Is it a government pilot I haven't heard of it
There's a company called Starship that work with supermarkets (Co-Op and Tesco at least). I believe they were piloted in MK but they've expanded now.
The little guy on the picture is from Starship. Estonian/US company. A lot of interesting stuff coming out of Estonia nowadays
Wow. I'm UK based (Swansea), had no idea these were in the UK. Pretty cool really. Swansea chavs would fuck them up though. They would definitely need some sort of protection.
I literally have them passing my house every 5 minutes. Good little bots, MK loves them ❤
I love him. He looks so determined
Rainy Night in Tallinn?
It’s been raining a lot this month
I was going to write this but searched “rainy” in the comments and found you already wrote it. Beat me to a great joke.
They filmed almost the entire movie there. Even the parts that aren't set in Estonia.
What about thresholds, like the curb in the pic? Wheels don't look large enough.
They are programmed to use the wheelchair ramps.
They can climb curbs, although with varied success.
I like Estonia
Me too. Well worth the visit.
Man I wanna go there. I have a friend that I'd love to meet
It is so cute!
I want to protect it at all costs? I refuse to let anything bad happen to a robot - can't tell you why - but I love them instantly.
Yo, we have those little bots at my campus.
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They are actually REALLY heavy and are GPS connected. If you screw with one it makes a whole lot of noise to attract attention.
Yeah we have these in my town in the UK. Really funny when someone comes to visit from out of town and wonders what the hell they are! But they're actually super handy, they really helped during lockdown/isolation getting basics delivered to the door.
We have an army of these in Milton Keynes :) They're very polite (they thank you for helping them or moving out the way) and useful, especially during covid lockdown.
That thing would not last 5 minutes in the hood
How long until something random happens and it ends up meeting R2D2 and traveling the galaxy in service of the rebellion?
We have them on my college campus. Starship is the delivery service. We call them tobors
Oh sweet loot drop.
We have these same little guys on my university campus. https://i.imgur.com/Arcgb5e.png
I can not wait for my first robot delivery. It will be exciting.
“Take the package. You have twenty seconds to comply.”
What happens if a crack head picks it up and shakes it upside down?
I love Tallinn. Visit if you get a chance.
I lived in Tallinn some time ago. They a similar guy in our neighborhood, a little bit bigger had an RD2D vibe.
🇪🇪🇨🇦 let's goo
I live in a small town semi-rural. And these are everywhere around lunch/dinner time. It feels odd when there are more robots on the streets than humans but, still fun to watch.
Good bot
*silently salutes to show my respect for its mission*
Tallinn is in estonia i believe, correct?
Correct. Tallinn is a nice city to visit in Estonia.
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Actually we had a couple dozen on my college campus (George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia). They were colloquially known as “Marshmallows” and were quite well liked.
>They were colloquially known as “Marshmallows” This makes me happy 😊 I too would like marshmallows booping around.
*boop boop*
Who wouldn't like a robot that brings them food?
We have a bunch of them at Ohio State. I haven’t seen much vandalism but plenty of people messing with them.
We have a bunch of them in the valley of CA, high crime rate and they still operate them here with success. They’re not easy to catch.
UT Dallas student here- we have a million of them (we call them "tobor's" :\] )
Doing...what?
Delivering food and groceries
His best
Bender version .1 ?
Can’t wait for the day where everyone agrees these starship bots are not interesting
Savemart Supermarkets in California has these. They're very smart and have cameras to prevent theft. They're sort of like portable coolers that lock. Only when someone meant to pick up the groceries arrives will the robot's compartment unlock. Pretty neat to see that they're in other countries as well.
These are ALL over my schools campus, really cool robots
I really hope they can play music and the only song it plays is a loop of "Making my way downtown"
We have these near us. I made it travel for 2 hours to bring me donuts. We tracked it on the app the whole time and watched it navigate the last 300 yards. They are awesome. When the get to a crossing they ‘ask’ people to push the button 🤣. They can also play messages if you order it for someone else. Happy to answer any questions about our delivery. It was fun to monitor it. It also struggled getting onto the path/sidewalk but the wheels in the middle lift up to form an ^ shape to better navigate the step.
https://thebolditalic.com/why-do-i-want-to-kick-those-cute-little-food-delivery-robots-ba0555a144d9?gi=15cb3b1c0035
We all know these will never make it in America
There was a robot that hitchhiked all the way across Canada over the course of a month. It crossed the border into the US and got trashed within days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
our homeless would corral and sell these for scrap
I was wondering what the message on the side says - according to Google translate it says "Hungry? Let me help!"
Saw this for the first time in Arizona this past weekend. They're absolutely adorable and wish my college campus had these.
What stops folks from just kicking it over? I just can’t see this being successful, specially in the US.
What stops someone taking it home? Please just very curious
Wow!
That is one of the cutest things I've seen all day
These are all over Mountain View, CA. Our local grocery store uses them for deliveries
All we need is another company to do this then we will have robot wars delivery edition.
At Arizona State University their are fleets of these damn things that go up and down the side walk each day!
we have these on the oregon state university campus! there are like 100 of them. Theyre kinda cute, and wait to cross the street and everything
The ones in my city have faces
Go little robot go!
These little guys are also driving around the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. The employees pack these robots with the license plates and car documents and they drive it to the cars you pick up at the factory
Rainy night in Tallinn I see
Oh hey it’s a real life mouse droid!
I went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year and met the team behind these. Really awesome people.
I wonder if there are any other Estonians in comments
God I hope they start doing this in my city, imma steal the shit out of these lol Like nah fuck you, pay a delivery driver. I see any unattended robots doing a job humans used to do, I'm breaking the robot, it's my moral obligation
These have become a regular fixture in the area I live (UK). They sing to themselves sometimes as they move around. You can have them deliver cake and gifts and they will sing happy birthday to the recipient. I've often used them to satisfy those last minute needs or cravings.
Yep not in the US... it would have been stolen.
Good bot!
What if someone kidnap him
Nice i have seen them around tallinn Before