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I didn't realize we had food delivery bots already...

by gfd 5y ago

dinkleberg 5y ago
Same, apparently they’ve been out for some years. I guess I live in an area with too much sprawl for these to be practical.
pjerem 5y ago
Same. That for sure fixes a huge problem of humankind. When I was young, we had to walk hundreds of meters to eat a pizza.
- fishtacos 5y ago
  The funniest/strangest/saddest angle I've encountered on this thread so far is regarding disabled people potentially not getting their food... as if human delivery was somehow not an option.
  - dymk 5y ago
    Humans can also perform manual arithmetic, but we still prefer to let the computer do that for us.
    - fishtacos 5y ago
      While the end result is inevitable, I am in no rush to automate all of humanity to its detriment. Socially/culturally/economically no civilization on Earth is advanced enough to provide for their people when faced with the above. Menial labor has its downsides, but the upsides are survival instead of death.
    - onion2k 5y ago
      Surely whether or not you chose to use a computer to achieve something depends on its capability. Computers are better at humans when it comes to arithmetic. They're worse than humans at delivering food (hence the tweet). It makes sense to use computers for one of these things, and not for the other.
  - renewiltord 5y ago
    I cannot believe you would type this comment electronically, thereby depriving a scribe, a courier, and a town crier of jobs. Three jobs gone, and for what? A snarky comment. The horror.
    - fishtacos 5y ago
      Your insipid examples imply improvement, whereas these "robots" imply "needing help from the general public". My argument stems from a different angle, but yours fails completely.
- jaclaz 5y ago
  >When I was young, we had to walk hundreds of meters to eat a pizza. But - to be fair - your nowadays almost unbelievable athletic feat was compensated by being able to eat a hot pizza just out of the oven.
  - addandsubtract 5y ago
    That robot is the oven (soon)
duxup 5y ago
They're mostly located on college campuses / in those highly localized areas. Give the company a pretty reasonable controlled environment to work / develop in rather than deal with all the exceptions you would have at scale.
warner25 5y ago
I didn't know what it was at the time, but I saw one matching this photo on another college campus back in 2017-2018.
colinmhayes 5y ago
They're pretty popular in CHina from what I can tell. Mostly on college campuses in the US.

I didn't realize we had food delivery bots already...

by gfd 5y ago

I didn't realize we had food delivery bots already...

Same, apparently they’ve been out for some years. I guess I live in an area with too much sprawl for these to be practical.

pjerem 5y ago

Same. That for sure fixes a huge problem of humankind. When I was young, we had to walk hundreds of meters to eat a pizza.

fishtacos 5y ago
The funniest/strangest/saddest angle I've encountered on this thread so far is regarding disabled people potentially not getting their food... as if human delivery was somehow not an option.
- dymk 5y ago
  Humans can also perform manual arithmetic, but we still prefer to let the computer do that for us.
  - fishtacos 5y ago
    While the end result is inevitable, I am in no rush to automate all of humanity to its detriment. Socially/culturally/economically no civilization on Earth is advanced enough to provide for their people when faced with the above. Menial labor has its downsides, but the upsides are survival instead of death.
  - onion2k 5y ago
    Surely whether or not you chose to use a computer to achieve something depends on its capability. Computers are better at humans when it comes to arithmetic. They're worse than humans at delivering food (hence the tweet). It makes sense to use computers for one of these things, and not for the other.
- renewiltord 5y ago
  I cannot believe you would type this comment electronically, thereby depriving a scribe, a courier, and a town crier of jobs. Three jobs gone, and for what? A snarky comment. The horror.
  - fishtacos 5y ago
    Your insipid examples imply improvement, whereas these "robots" imply "needing help from the general public". My argument stems from a different angle, but yours fails completely.
jaclaz 5y ago
>When I was young, we had to walk hundreds of meters to eat a pizza. But - to be fair - your nowadays almost unbelievable athletic feat was compensated by being able to eat a hot pizza just out of the oven.
- addandsubtract 5y ago
  That robot is the oven (soon)

duxup 5y ago

They're mostly located on college campuses / in those highly localized areas. Give the company a pretty reasonable controlled environment to work / develop in rather than deal with all the exceptions you would have at scale.

warner25 5y ago

I didn't know what it was at the time, but I saw one matching this photo on another college campus back in 2017-2018.

colinmhayes 5y ago

They're pretty popular in CHina from what I can tell. Mostly on college campuses in the US.