{"id":23697,"date":"2016-03-18T08:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/dominos-has-built-an-autonomous-pizza-delivery-robot"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:39:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:39:12","slug":"dominos-has-built-an-autonomous-pizza-delivery-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/dominos-has-built-an-autonomous-pizza-delivery-robot","title":{"rendered":"Domino\u2019s has built an autonomous pizza delivery robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rb0nxQyv7RU?rel=0&wmode=opaque\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cute, but i think mainly a publicity stunt. You couldnt trust that thing to be by itself unless it was a really safe small town or nice suburb.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For a pizza chain, Domino\u2019s actually has a pretty rich history of innovation. It\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/05\/12\/dominos-pizza-twitter-emoji\/\">embraced social media<\/a>, created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/23\/dominos-easy-order-button\/\">one-click Easy Order button<\/a> and even built a delivery car that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/10\/21\/dominos-dxp-pizza-delivery-car\/\">has its own pizza oven<\/a>. Now it\u2019s looking at robots. More specifically: delivery robots. What you see here is DRU (Domino\u2019s Robotic Unit), an autonomous delivery vehicle built in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/marathon-targets.com\/2016\/03\/18\/worlds-first-autonomous-pizza-delivery\/\">Australian technology startup Marathon Targets<\/a> that Domino\u2019s says is the first of its kind. It\u2019s filled with thousands of dollars worth of military robotics tech, but its covert mission has been to deliver fresh pizza to the residents of Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>DRU is still in the prototype stage, but that doesn\u2019t mean that it hasn\u2019t been busy. Domino\u2019s worked with the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads to ensure it met all the requirements to be set loose on the streets. It uses LIDAR, the same technology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/12\/driverless-car-lidar-london\/\">utilized by self-driving cars<\/a>, to identify the surrounding environment and has built-in GPS tracking technology that syncs with Google Maps. It\u2019s actually very similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/02\/starship-technologies-local-delivery-robot\/\">Starship Technologies\u2019 eponymous delivery robots<\/a>, which will soon hit the streets of London.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/03\/18\/dominos-autonomous-pizza-delivery-vehicle\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/03\/18\/dominos-autonomous-pizza-delivery-vehicle\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cute, but i think mainly a publicity stunt. You couldnt trust that thing to be by itself unless it was a really safe small town or nice suburb. For a pizza chain, Domino\u2019s actually has a pretty rich history of innovation. It\u2019s embraced social media, created a one-click Easy Order button and even built a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62354,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions\/62354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}