Roboter sollen Kuriere bei Uber Eats in Großbritannien ersetzen
Von tylerthe-theatre
Roboter sollen Kuriere bei Uber Eats in Großbritannien ersetzen
Von tylerthe-theatre
44 Kommentare
Can’t wait to see a graffiti-covered robot with a cone stuck to its head driving around Glasgow.
Add all the alarms and cameras to these things you want
People are still going to trash them, kick them over, flip them, graffiti them and put chuck them in water.
I’d like to think I’m wrong but we’re in England.
Edit: those who think I’m miserable, I’m not. I think it’s jokes. But if you insist I am, I guess I must be. Enjoy your day, careful of corners.
I can’t see this ending well. They’re definitely getting smashed up by kids.
How do these big companies get to do whatever they want with no recourse… its mental.
Talking about hiring people with no documents on a absolutely insane scale , government does nothing.
Roll out fucking robots to pootle around on the pavements, nothing.
Imagine if I opened a ltd and started just buzzing fucking table sized rc cars around the streets of London, i would probably get swatted and gangbanged by the police.
The pavements by me have pot holes. These things wouldn’t stand a chance and that’s before the scrappies get hold of them for the metal
What will the illegal workers move onto when food delivery services abandon them?
>The robots operate at what is labelled ‘level four’ autonomy, which means they can navigate pavements and roads without human supervision, using cameras, radars, and AI systems honed over hundreds of millions of crossings.
Can they get out of a river if they’re chucked in every single time they try to make a delivery?
Are these going to work in the UK? Given the state of our pavements and roads and the fact we don’t have easy grid based systems, I can easily see your ruby getting stuck somewhere because a paving slab has sunk or the curb is too high. Not to mention various groups of reprobates who’ll trash or nick them.
Hahaha you can bet some people will figure out how to destroy them and get a free Macca’s out of it!
We have become too much of a low-trust society for this kind of thing to work. Quite tragic really. We could have had this, but instead we get Abdul the illegal on a modified e-bike.
Lots of those scrap metal trucks are salivating lol
We’ve had these in Milton Keynes for about half a decade without people smashing them to pieces etc. They were great during covid but they essentially priced themselves out of the market by making any robot delivery cost an absurd amount per item.
The thing will take an hour to get to me from the local kebbabey…it’ll be freezing by the time I eat!
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Jesus the deliveries are lukewarm at best now. What’s it going to be like with these things delivering them at walking pace, leaving aside the fact that most of them will be turned upside down by a bored lad before they reach their destination.
How do these robots get the food in the first place?
I assume they’re not driving into the stores, as I imagine most places don’t want to become a robot car park. But it must also be pretty disruptive to staff if they keep having to run outside to fill up robots.
Yeah, no they’re not. This isn’t new, these things have already been tried. They sort of kinda work okay in very limited circumstances, but they’re not versatile, reliable or resilient enough to make any major inroads into the problem space they’re aimed at.
If my robot will come straight to my door, not drop off 9 other orders and chat to its mates first then I’ll welcome the robots with open arms
Good, hopefully Miguel from Columbia working here illegally won’t steal my takeaway.
If it gets rid of ebike riders, it’s a step in the right direction.
A common theme amongst the comments „British people are crap and this wouldn’t last five minutes here“
I think people really underestimate the capacity of people just to ignore these kind of things and get on with their lives. The UK is not some sort of outlier in the world when it comes to vandalism and compliance.
So… Are Uber still gonna push for us to tip them?
What’s stopping someone who say, has not had a decent meal for the last couple of days taking to one of these with a golf club, or a brick etc, and stealing the contents? Given how rampant phone theft is in London, I doubt anyone is going to give a shit if people are stealing meals from these en masse.
Seeing the way people treat the share bikes (placing them up in trees or in canals, etc) does not fill me with confidence with regards to how these UberEats robots will be treated.
Cant wait to collect my food from a robot with dog poo all over its wheels
Suspect they’ll all be in the local canal before end of the week.
Unless they’re fitted with ED-209 guns.
These things have been a feature in Milton Keynes for years now. I think all the problems being discussed have been resolved already because they’re connected to real operators and covered in cameras…
They’ve been trialled in the suburbs of Cambridge for ages now, quite often see a few parked outside a local co-op, or trundling down the street. People usually ignore them.
I’ve not seen them in the city centre though where pavement space is limited and there’s cobbled streets. Suspect they’ll continue to use couriers there.
Wonder how this will work outside of major cities
Somewhat dystopia hilarious as couriers often double up on orders and do both and they’ve been outsourced by a remote bin
Remember when the ebikes announced the first city it globally ever had to pull out of due to high amounts of vandalism was located in the UK? Yeah, good luck Uber.
Huh interesting we want to shoehorn ai into everything and use it to replace workers.
Now we want to do it for jobs where traditionally people would take up as side hustle or in times where work is unavailable.
these things are always for the investors
we can get rid of our biggest outgoing wages to humans, and we will make 10x the profit by 2030
its funny they don’t think with all the people out of work to Robots and AI who is ordering takeaway pizzas/burgers not millionaires/billionaires there is not enough of them.
even if they pass the savings to the customers, they wont ,that is still going to be more than full price of a takeaway meal
I’m not sure what I’d hate more.
Almost getting knocked by an Uber Eats cyclist that has no lights and reflectors and wearing dark clothing so you can’t see em
Or almost tripping in a robot because no one expects something this small to get in your way
I predict several new sports happening in the near future.
Run over the Robot
Steal the free food
Grafitti the Robot
Stick the funny thing to the Robot.
How many time can you hit a Robot before it breaks.
These things have been around years where i live. Always cute and people help them out when stuck
Will they run on pavements? Look out pedestrians. At least you can see the infernal e-bikes!
I’d be more likely to order food delivery if a robot delivers it
Yeh, how’s it going to open gates, climb stairs etc. Plus people will just steal the food or kick the shit out of them for a laugh. Stupid idea .
Just want I wanted. My food to be delivered eventually slower in a cool box on wheels.
And that robot is going to go up stairs to a flat, is it?
The things will be run over by cars on purpose, stolen, jumped on, tipped over for fun
And how does it press the button at a pelican crossing? It won’t even be able to cross the damn road.
It’ll be a massive failure.
Honestly if they get trashed then it serves Uber Eats right for cutting their staff (which, bearing in mind, they already treat like dirt). Like with most companies owned by yanks, greed is the only driving factor here. Hopefully these things get wrecked enough for them to realise that we don’t tolerate this kind of late stage capitalist nonsense in the UK.
I still don’t understand how anyone could defend this wave of automation we are getting now if the only reason it’s happening is to line the pockets of some rich wanker who voted for a fascist in their country on the other side of the world. People need jobs, and some people need jobs that don’t require a degree in computational science.
What would the legality of a group of people against ai/robots just blocking these robots and continuously moving into the way it wants to go (not stopping it retreating)?
Along with shopping trolleys the rivers and canals of the uk will be festooned with these job stealing robots.
Nope. Clearly the Americans haven’t met Britain. And they will meet a canal faster than a shopping trolley the more they take job. Off they fuck.