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don't want to go out for lunch don't worry this robot can bring it to you with the appetite for food delivery growing Yelp eat24 and door - a running pilot programs in California with delivery robots we complement their fleets by being able to take on the small short distance orders dough - is using the 35 pound starship robot that travels at four miles per hour cameras and sensors help it avoid pedestrians the amount of way - can carry is about anywhere from 25 to 30 pounds Yelp 824 is using the larger model robot that has lidar or light detection and ranging technology which is used in self-driving cars where it's able to perceive its environment and cruise down sidewalks and basically deliver things from A to B inside of cities the robots travel short distances up to one and a half miles they automatically navigate from the Depot to the restaurant where the order is placed in a hot bag it then brings the food to your door in about the same time it would take if a human was delivering the order during the trial phase humans will accompany the bots on delivery runs we always envision what we call a 99% autonomous model where and we'd always still be able to retain a human element of control and oversight whenever the robots encounter uncertain situations robots will be able to drive on their own of course over time and that's the goal in the future these robots could be used to drop off more than just food we're also looking at other markets like grocery and pharmacy so now the trials are limited to a few neighborhoods in San Francisco and redwood city in San Francisco Lexus Avedis cnet.com for CBS News