On the 1st December, after five months of “exhausting” testing, JustEat made its first self-driving robot-delivery with one unsuspecting customer’s Turkish takeaway in Greenwich, London.
Starship Technologies, an Estonia-based robotics startup partnered with the food delivery giant, have been testing the ‘ground-drones’ across US and European cities since late 2015.
The world’s first takeaway robot delivery was made by a small six-wheeled pavement bot that sent the customer a text once outside her house. The customer then simply had to click on a link sent to her to open the robot’s hatch and access her food.
