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Domino's Will Deliver Pizza By Drone and By Robot (roboticstrends.com)
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes CNN Money's report that "pizzas will soon be dropping from the heavens":
Domino's demonstrated its ability to deliver food via a drone Thursday in New Zealand and plans to test actual deliveries to customers next month. "It doesn't add up to deliver a two kilogram package in a two-ton vehicle," said Scott Bush, a general manager for Domino's Pizza Enterprises, which is independent of the U.S. chain and operates in seven countries. "In Auckland, we have such massive traffic congestion it just makes sense to take to the airways."
A Domino's customer who requests a drone delivery will receive a notification when their delivery is approaching. After going outside and hitting a button on their smartphone, the drone will lower the food via a tether. Once the package is released, the drone pulls the tether back up and flies back to the Domino's store.
Robotics Trends has video from the flight, and reports that Domino's is also testing a pizza-delivering robot. Their Domino's Robotics Unit "has four wheels, is less than three feet tall, and has a heated compartment that can hold up to 10 pizzas. It can deliver pizzas within a 12.5-mile radius before needing to be recharged."
A Domino's customer who requests a drone delivery will receive a notification when their delivery is approaching. After going outside and hitting a button on their smartphone, the drone will lower the food via a tether. Once the package is released, the drone pulls the tether back up and flies back to the Domino's store.
Robotics Trends has video from the flight, and reports that Domino's is also testing a pizza-delivering robot. Their Domino's Robotics Unit "has four wheels, is less than three feet tall, and has a heated compartment that can hold up to 10 pizzas. It can deliver pizzas within a 12.5-mile radius before needing to be recharged."
Just what we need - pizzas delivered under a nice cooling fan! Did Dominoes decide their pizzas didn't suck enough - that they had to lower the bar further in their race against Pizza Hut for bragging rights for the "worst pizza ever?"
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Now all we need is for beer to be delivered the same way! I'd never have to leave the house!
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It'll take'em a while to get it fully regulated and perfected, but the future is coming. Gone are the days of the high school student with a new license making a buck where a drone can do it cheaper. :|
......with your pizza.
Cool !!!!!
Will the drones expect a gratuity?
Drumpfino's demonstrated its ability to deliver food via a drumpf Thursday in New Drumpfand and plans to test actual deliveries to customers next month. "It doesn't add up to deliver a two kilodrumpf package in a two-drumpf vehicle," said Scott Budrumpf, a general manager for Drumpfino's Pizza Enterprises, which is independent of the U.S. chain and operates in seven countries. "In Auckdrumpf, we have such massive traffic congestion it just makes sense to take to the airways."
A Drumpfino's customer who requests a drumpf delivery will receive a notification when their delivery is approaching. After going outside and hitting a button on their drumpfphone, the drumpf will lower the food via a tether. Once the package is released, the drumpf pulls the tether back up and flies back to the Drumpfino's store.
Its called the 'hot bag' and its made for pizza to go inside and be kept warm.
Delivery bag[edit]
Bags used to keep pizza hot while being transported are commonly referred to as hotbags[16] or hot bags.[17] Hotbags are thermal bags, typically made of vinyl, nylon, or Cordura, that passively retain heat.[16] Material choice affects cost, durability, and condensation.[16] Heated bags supply added heat through insertion of externally heated disks, electrical heating elements, or pellets heated by induction from electrically generated magnetic waves.[16] Innovations in delivery bag designs have allowed without the usage of a fixed box for bike delivery, such as a hard frame, back straps, and waterproofing. These systems proved to be cheaper, more efficient and faster to use.
Personally im more worried that a drone will hit someone in the head, get shot down, or even worse...deliver Domino's shitty pizza.
The cops don't just eat donuts...
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I know you are going for funny point mods, but the real advantage here to Dominos is that NO gratuity is expected at all. If the price is the same then they will sell far more pizzas as people won't have to worry about tipping enough, or being dressed well enough to greet a stranger at the door, or have the front living room clean enough as said pizza person casually stares past you as you fumble for your wallet. Just talking to a stranger is a task for some socially awkward people. It will be perceived as safer also. No one casing your home as they deliver pizza. When you factor in the energy and gas savings and once it is perfected I bet the per mile cost is 1/10th the amount with a delivery person.
Yes jobs will be lost. Drudge jobs we as a society shouldn't be expecting people to live by. As for students, their time is better spent studying than trying to pick a few extra bucks, because like it or not, the no skill jobs are going away. Even many skilled jobs are in peril. This will be an awkward 10-50 years as we learn to adapt society to a not-everyone-has-to-work society. Corny as Star Trek's 'we work to better ourselves' slogan is, the only non-dystopian future will have to be this way -- where you are not compensated for the work you provide, but by how well you prove you are constantly learning and helping society as a whole, and yes for same that will be a regular job kind of work, but for most it will be community service and continuing education.
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Robot knocks on the door. People open it up with surprise. Then the robot says in Dr Sbiatso voice,"Give me your money human." Sleep(3000 milliseconds) "I have your pizza."
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This drone program has now generated more PR/advertising than its cost x 100.
Now we will have flying devices dangling lines that can easily choke your favorite villain, neighbor, pet or grandma. Should be just the ticket for taking care of highwaymen.
Whatever can go wrong, WILL go wrong and in the absolute worst way possible at least once. Are the risks of these devices something we want to allow into our lives? It isn't like a remote control car that just stops moving when the battery goes dead, something gets caught in the wheels or any number of other failures occurs. These things plummet to earth and are looking for a soft human landing spot ripe for conjoining.
Now I just need a housecleaning robot who can get the pizza and feed the slices to me. Then I will never need to move again.
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So if I'm in an apartment building I'm going to have to go down to the entrance of the building to meet the drone instead of ringing in the delivery person to bring the pizza up. How convenient.
The day a pizza shows up by robot is when I decline the pizza. These jobs are meant for teens or college kids to make extra money. Looks like I stop ordering from Domino's.
"It doesn't add up to deliver a two kilogram package in a two-ton vehicle"... yes, that's why the rest of the world uses motor scooters for pizza deliveries.
I wonder why it is I even bother.
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Aside from that it seems like a fundamentally expensive and risk laden application of technology. Is it going to be able to deliver at night, or in heavy rain / wind, or to urban buildings like apartments, or be able to detect wires, poles, trees that surround where most people live? Will pizza places have drone pads out front? Will staff be expected to charge / service these drones, and deal with whatever griefing / damage / vandalism they receive? Heaps of issues that it would be necessary to solve when the problem is already solved.
I'll send one of the girls to block its path until the 30 minute limit is up, can it read the clock?
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What do they use to deliver pizza? A SUV? Here in good old Europe(tm) they use bicycles, ebikes and scooters to deliver pizza. This has the additional advantage that I do not need to run X stairs down to the street, pick up the pizza and get back up to my flat. All that before someone else takes the pizza.
No, Dominoes will never deliver pizza via drone or robot on any large scale. But, they will use the "buzz" of drones to draw attention to themselves and expand their mind share with guerrilla marketing by claiming that it is a possibility in the testing phase. And it worked! Slashdot - a web community of users who imagine themselves to be highly intelligent critical thinkers - ran with the story and "ate" it up.
There's a greater probability that driverless cars will be used fro pizza delivery in the next 5 years, than there is of drone pizza delivery in the next 20 years.
Can you imagine how people are going to react when they see one of these delivery robots rolling down the sidewalk?
"Hey look! Free pizza!"
This could mean the end of all those other delivery methods that do away with the inefficient driver/vehicle approach, such as rocket mail
Maybe the writers of the Terminator series need to reevaluate how Skynet was formed.
Instead of a virus or a webpage: Skynet started when disgruntled Domino's Pizza bots got sick of hearing customer complaints and crappy tips.
Just wait till one of the drones has a failure and it falls out of the sky onto some kid, or hits the windshield of a car speeding down the street.
I suppose if I actually ate this garbage I'd stop in order to protest the loss of jobs. At the very least I'd want to know how much less a pizza would me cost now due to the reduced labor costs and make a decision based on that.
"It doesn't add up to deliver a two kilogram package in a two-ton vehicle,"
Yes it does because we're paying for it.
Otherwise.. bike? scooter? battery powered vehicles / bikes / scooters ?
Rabbit turd meat in a jiffy.
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You know what else delivers its payload with a tether, then flies away?
For the answer, watch Seven Minutes of Terror -- the best video ever produced by the U.S. Government.
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We can get back to our natural root! Now we can go back to hunting for our dinner. Slingshot, bow and arrow, guns, whatever. Go shoot down your dinner and enjoy the pizza.
The big question is, is this a sustainable environmentally?
Will it fly in the rain? Snow? What about winds? Can I order one before a storm is about to hit?
If pornographic movies have taught me something, it's that the pizza is NOT the relevant part of "pizza delivery man"...