DoorDash’s longtime dream of cutting paid human beings out of the delivery process is one step closer to reality, as they’re debuting their little robots to do food deliveries, but at first only in Fremont.
Food delivery service DoorDash obviously hopes to pay its drivers as little as possible, and has always seen human drivers as a temporary unnecessary convenience until they can develop robots and drones to handle that job. They’re already testing the drones at a Mission District warehouse, and the robots will arrive in the Bay Area next week.
The San Francisco Business Times reports that DoorDash will roll out its delivery robots in Fremont, with a plan to start using the little robots effective next Thursday. They have perhaps avoided using the robots in San Francisco, where lawmakers are often fight technological creep, plus people might torch the little robots, or strip them and sell their parts for fentanyl money…