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Free-driving delivery robot makes sense when the restaurant has "classic" seating, including with no adjacent walls, and portion sizes that would make conveyor
by p_l 5y ago
Free-driving delivery robot makes sense when the restaurant has "classic" seating, including with no adjacent walls, and portion sizes that would make conveyor belt quite wide
- eru 5y agoMaybe. Though this reminds me of people trying to design a horseless carriage: It's totally doable with modern technology, but in all honesty, modern cars work better. (Off-topic: now that I think about it, it would be fun to see a 'self-driving carriage'. Ie you keep the horses, but replace the coachman with technology.)
- p_l 5y agoFWIW, conveyor (or just any other static logistical mover) vs independently driving robots (or even crewed systems) is a valid spectrum that you apply in both internal factory logistics (from workers driving, through automatic robots, to conveyors and internal trains) and nation-wide systems (lorry vs. train, pretty much)
- eru 5y agoYes, it's a valid spectrum. Definitely! About your other example: I would expect self-driving lorries in a few decades to look very different from current human-driven lorries.