If you live in Redwood City, California, or Washington, DC, your next take-out order might be delivered by a robot. (Business Insider: Self-driving robots will start making deliveries for Postmates and DoorDash in select US cities)
- Insert lengthy editorial on the need to radically improve the educational system well ahead of the Age of Robos and we don't believe Betty DeVos is even remotely the one to do it -
There is no fortune telling in this one since it isn't fifty years from now but today.
Starship Technologies, a London- and Estonia-based robotics company, announced on January 18 the launch of a pilot program that will have its fleet of autonomous bots make food deliveries for DoorDash in the Silicon Valley city and Postmates in the nation's capital.
- BI
- Starship Technologies
That's a cute pic with the kids and must look peachy with the brochure but here's one more which is a little more realistic.
- Starship Technologies
Ed: what if someone steals it?
What should anyone do with it. Likely you will have to be a high-end brainiac to re-program it because probably at least some of that code is burned into memory where it can't be changed.
Ed: vandals will spray paint it laughs, trash it for meanness, etc, etc.
Possibly true but the robo is watching everything around it if only to ensure it doesn't hit anyone. If it detects any type of violation to itself, likely it will instantly scream on all police channels and I imagine the penalty for doing such things will be ramped to go well beyond what comes from painting gang signs on subway cars.
We're just dying for the big punchline since we see great irony in the possibility the most use for handicapped access cutouts in city streets, public buildings, etc may not come from humans but rather robos.
There's no editorial on that but the possibility seems real.
Here's a glorious aphorism for today: the future doesn't wait for pundits. The robos are coming now.
- Insert lengthy editorial on the need to radically improve the educational system well ahead of the Age of Robos and we don't believe Betty DeVos is even remotely the one to do it -
There is no fortune telling in this one since it isn't fifty years from now but today.
Starship Technologies, a London- and Estonia-based robotics company, announced on January 18 the launch of a pilot program that will have its fleet of autonomous bots make food deliveries for DoorDash in the Silicon Valley city and Postmates in the nation's capital.
- BI
- Starship Technologies
That's a cute pic with the kids and must look peachy with the brochure but here's one more which is a little more realistic.
- Starship Technologies
Ed: what if someone steals it?
What should anyone do with it. Likely you will have to be a high-end brainiac to re-program it because probably at least some of that code is burned into memory where it can't be changed.
Ed: vandals will spray paint it laughs, trash it for meanness, etc, etc.
Possibly true but the robo is watching everything around it if only to ensure it doesn't hit anyone. If it detects any type of violation to itself, likely it will instantly scream on all police channels and I imagine the penalty for doing such things will be ramped to go well beyond what comes from painting gang signs on subway cars.
We're just dying for the big punchline since we see great irony in the possibility the most use for handicapped access cutouts in city streets, public buildings, etc may not come from humans but rather robos.
There's no editorial on that but the possibility seems real.
Here's a glorious aphorism for today: the future doesn't wait for pundits. The robos are coming now.
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