this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2026
239 points (98.4% liked)

Technology

87417 readers
3818 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

College campuses across the country will no longer be swarming with tiny rolling robots.

Starship Technologies, a leading delivery bot company, announced earlier this month that it was ending its university operations and redeploying over a thousand of its meal machines. But the news is just starting to sink in, as various partnered universities all issue official communications mourning the program’s end like obituaries for a celebrity’s passing.

The time has come for the takeout drones to hit the big leagues, as the company intends to focus on doing deliveries for grocery chains and restaurants in cities instead. And shut-in, no-tipping undergrads from coast to coast weep.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] artyom@piefed.social 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Not sure how they expect to roll these out by the thousands without completely clogging up sidewalks and bike lanes...

Zipline is where it's at...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When will they set up the catapults to fling deliveries like in Death Stranding?

[–] Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Clearly, the superior ~~siege~~ delivery engine is a trebuchet.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 1 month ago

They won't be in my area. We don't have sidewalks or bike lanes.

[–] VAK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe then they'll improve bike lanes

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago

These are the kind of things that could run on a lane built over the sidewalk...

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Like I can't build drones to steal from them too.

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

I think they've been running around in Milton Keynes, UK for a few years now.