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Food Delivery Giant Claims First Robot-Delivered Meal

Food delivery giant Just Eat is laying claim to a significant milestone today —  the world’s first takeaway meal delivered by a robot. We first revealed back in July that Just Eat was partnering with Starship Technologies, the Estonia-based robotics startup created by Skype’s founders, to trial drone deliveries using a little six-wheeled sidewalk bot. Starship Technologies has been testing the robots across U.S. and European cities since late 2015, and it was already known that retailers from other industries would be testing robot deliveries commercially in London. This mirrors moves by companies such as Amazon, which had also previously revealed that it’s bringing drone-powered deliveries to market.

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  1. R MARK REASBECK from www.USAonly.US , December 6, 2016 at 9:31 p.m.

    hackers will figure how to connect, and then they knock-off the robot, and take their pizza home.
    So is it really a robbery, since the robot's not a person???

    IDIOTS.............................STOP IT.  So when the tech-lemmings eliminate all service industry jobs, who will be there to order the pizza that makes the robot run?????

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