{"id":121517,"date":"2021-04-13T21:24:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/dominos-begins-making-autonomous-pizza-deliveries-in-houston"},"modified":"2021-04-13T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:24:49","slug":"dominos-begins-making-autonomous-pizza-deliveries-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/dominos-begins-making-autonomous-pizza-deliveries-in-houston","title":{"rendered":"Domino\u2019s Begins Making Autonomous Pizza Deliveries in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dominos-begins-making-autonomous-pizza-deliveries-in-houston2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Domino\u2019s and Nuro teamed up for autonomous pizza delivery in Houston. Don\u2019t get your hopes up, though, for a driverless drop-off: Many restrictions apply, and only a handful of hungry people can opt in right now.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning this week, select customers who place a prepaid website order from the lone participating pizza shop in Woodland Heights can opt to have their food delivered by Nuro\u2019s R2 robot. Those lucky patrons receive text alerts highlighting R2\u2019s location, and can track the vehicle via GPS on the order confirmation page. Domino\u2019s also provides a unique personal identification number required to open the bot\u2019s door and reveal that piping hot pizza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to continue innovating the delivery experience for Domino\u2019s customers by testing autonomous delivery with Nuro in Houston,\u201d Dennis Maloney, Domino\u2019s senior vice president and chief innovation officer, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/dominos.gcs-web.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/dominosr-and-nuro-launch-autonomous-pizza-delivery-road-robot\" target=\"_blank\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cThere is still so much for our brand to learn about the autonomous delivery space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domino\u2019s and Nuro teamed up for autonomous pizza delivery in Houston. Don\u2019t get your hopes up, though, for a driverless drop-off: Many restrictions apply, and only a handful of hungry people can opt in right now. Beginning this week, select customers who place a prepaid website order from the lone participating pizza shop in Woodland [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}