“This
is an exciting opportunity for New Zealand... over the last 12 months I’ve been
actively and aggressively promoting New Zealand as a test bed for new transport
technology trials”
New Zealand Transport
Minister Simon Bridges tells the AFP
Dominoes
Pizza is finally getting rid of Human Deliveries.
This
as they've unveiled their DRU (Domino’s Robotic Unit) in New Zealand that
deliver pizza to your door as reported in the article “Domino’s
unveil 'world’s first' pizza delivery robot”, published Thursday 17 March
2016 by Australian Associated Press, The
UK Guardian.
Yes
folks, the replacement of the Fast Food worker has truly begun as I'd predicted
in my blog article
entitled “Fast
Food Robot taking over by 2017 - How Drones like Amazon and PrimeAir and not
Humanoid Robots will be the first Robots by 2015”.
No
launch dates has been given, but expect this around the same time as the 31st
staging of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5th
to 21st 2016 as noted in my blog article
entitled “How
Jamaica's February 2016 Sports Calendar will help spread the Zika Virus”.
This
comes a no surprise, as Dominoes, a very tech-forward company, had already
introduced a Siri-like virtual assistant to order pizza as well as text message
orders with pizza emoji as noted in the article “Domino's
will use robots to deliver pizzas in New Zealand trial of DRU autonomous bot
will begin in Wellington”, published March 18, 2016 By Amar Toor, The Verge.
In
fact, they'd introduced the Domicopter, a Drone that could deliver pizza in
June 2013!
Still,
I wonder, what will they do with the Dominoes Pizza Delivery Car?
But
the DRU rolls on wheels instead of flying. So how will this DRU work?
Dominoes DRU to deliver
pizza to New Zealanders - How Fast Food Workers will be replaced by Robots
Built by Aussie start-up Marathon Robotics and
in developed for the past eight months, the robot can do the following:
1.
Transport pizza
2.
Hot and cold Drinks in specially
designed compartments
3.
Accept Payments
Costing
US$22,000, the 4 wheeled robot uses GPS and LIDAR to move around at a max speed
of 18 kmh (12 mph) as noted in the article “Domino’s
has built a self-driving robot for pizza delivery”, published March 18,
2016 By Trevor Mogg, DigitalTrends.
It’s
bristling with IP Cameras and is heavy, so stealing this would present quite a
challenge for the grab-and-go thief who really likes pizza. Also the cargo is
pointless to steal; it's just pizza, as none of the credit card information is
stored on the Bot.
Worse,
it might use a mobile Wallet platform compatible with Apple Pay, Google Play or
Samsung Pay or even a mobile money platform based on QR codes as explained in
my blog article
entitled “Why
WeChat ewallet in South Africa as ScotiaBank Jamaica and Digicel going Cashless”.
Legitimate
customers gain access to the DRU's cargo via entering a special code provided
by the staff when you order online. Hopefully this will be a product that'll
stick around instead of fading into obscurity as with previous attempts to use
robots to replace human-centric jobs as noted in “Domino's
robot finally removes last vestiges of human contact from pizza delivery”,
published 18 March 2016 by Claire Reilly, CNET
News.
Also,
it would be great if this thing could also fly like a drone, albeit it would
need an awful lot of propulsion, be it rotors or mini-jet engines!
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