Gadgetory

what amounted curb has six wheels and is bringing a fresh burrito to your door a food delivery robot of course inside this starship bot is a meal ordered through door - it's coming soon to a sidewalk near you as long as that sidewalks in Redwood City California when you place an order the robot springs to life and navigates to the restaurant an employee puts the food inside and closes the hatch sending it on its way at the other end you get a text message with a link saying your orders being delivered and when the robot arrives you unlock the hatch with a button on screen each starship bot has nine cameras and ultrasonic sensors four obstacle detection they can travel as fast as ten miles an hour but are limited to four miles an hour for now there's even a special mode that lets the robot cross the road safely human handlers will keep an eye on the bots during deliveries in this pilot phase but the idea is they'll be almost fully autonomous in the future I followed the body round on a delivery run and passes by I thought it was pretty cute but what if someone tries to steal your meal the robots only wave 40 pounds so if you're really hungry or strong you could try and swipe it from the curb you know what we've built in our kind of a you know variety of anti-theft Prevention's for example we have cameras we have GPS tracking we have two-way audio alarms so if there's any tampering with the robot theft attempts the robot will immediately notify a human operator who can take control the robots speak to the vandal or request police assistance Doh - says it's using robots on shorter routes that their delivery humans called dashes tend to avoid - our robot food delivery overlords I salute you and I'll have a pizza Thanks