Robot delivery still on your kid’s campus

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Anonymous wrote:GMU definitely has had them for a number of years. Adorable!

We’ve seen them in Fairfax City before. My kids get so excited when they spot one!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can see the use for them under quarantine in a pandemic but otherwise they annoy me. Kids too lazy to walk to dining hall? Or to walk downstairs to meet Door Dash? Lame.

Actually, the program started at GMU ten years ago as robotic research to create these robots for private restaurant use. GMU is the largest R1 research university in the Commonwealth. During covid private deliveries were commenced using the robots that GMU created. https://cec.gmu.edu/strengths/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/robotics-research

The robots people are talking about (Starship) were developed in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Technologies

DP: The research on how they function in the real-life setting of a campus was a collaborative project between Starship and folks at GMU. The robots themselves were developed by Starship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can see the use for them under quarantine in a pandemic but otherwise they annoy me. Kids too lazy to walk to dining hall? Or to walk downstairs to meet Door Dash? Lame.

Actually, the program started at GMU ten years ago as robotic research to create these robots for private restaurant use. GMU is the largest R1 research university in the Commonwealth. During covid private deliveries were commenced using the robots that GMU created. https://cec.gmu.edu/strengths/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/robotics-research

The robots people are talking about (Starship) were developed in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Technologies

DP: The research on how they function in the real-life setting of a campus was a collaborative project between Starship and folks at GMU. The robots themselves were developed by Starship.

Nevertheless a huge reserach endeavor and money maker for GMU, not "kids too lazy to walk to dining hall" issue.

[Anonymous]

I saw them at U of AZ not too long ago.

[Anonymous]

I saw them at UCLA when I toured with my child awhile back. The engineer in me thought is was the coolest thing ever.

[Anonymous]

We saw a few on our recent tours of California colleges.

[Anonymous]

Lunch lines were crazy at JMU today. My daughter was excited to share she placed her first Starship delivery from outside the dining hall and her lunch arrived at her dorm not long after she did.