This Is The First College To Include Food Delivery Robots In Its Meal Plan

Posted: Jan 24, 2019



The future is here, and it has your Starbucks order.

Another college has jumped aboard the food-wielding robot train. A few weeks ago, PepsiCo unleashed a fleet of self-driving snack delivery bots across the University of the Pacific's California campus, and now, Fairfax, Virginia's George Mason University has incorporated 25 robots into its official meal plan (making it the first of its kind).

The new system, a collaboration between food service company Sodexo Inc. and autonomous delivery service Starship Technologies, is available to GMU's 40,000 students, faculty, and staff starting this week. As with the University of the Pacific's robot delivery system, George Mason University users must first download an app. From there, they can order food and drinks from a handful of locations (Blaze Pizza, Starbucks, Dunkin, the on-campus grocery store) for a $1.99 delivery fee, in conjunction with their meal plans.

Sodexo
Once an order has been placed, the user drops a pin where they want their food to be sent (they can watch their bot-friend's journey via an interactive map, if they so choose). They'll receive an alert when the robot has completed its journey, and can then meet them and unlock the bot's food hatch (each robot is kind of like a cooler on wheels—they can carry about 20 pounds, or three grocery bags' worth, of food). The whole process takes 15 minutes or less.

By Caitlin Petreyick
January 23, 2019
Source: Foodandwine.com



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