| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
Domino’s Pizza to use robots to deliver pizzas to customers in Europe
Fast-food delivery jobs are at risk of being replaced by robots.
Domino’s Pizza Enterprises (NYSE:DPZ( (LON:DOM) will use self-driving robots created by Starship Technologies to deliver pizzas to its German and Netherlands customers.
Starship’s six-wheeled robot will take pizzas to customers who live within a one-mile radius of certain pizza shops in select German and Dutch cities.
London-based Starship was launched in July 2014 by two former Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis.
Its robots are designed to operate autonomously on sidewalks and have a maximum speed of four miles per hour and can carry up to 20 pounds.
Customers unlock the robot’s cargo hold using a code sent to their mobile phones. Food is placed inside a special hot or cold bag similar to the ones used for motorcycle-based deliveries.
“Dependent on size, we can carry up to eight pizzas on a delivery or a variety of combinations of pizzas, sides and cold drinks or dessert products,” Starship said in a statement.
Domino’s has formed a group called Domino’s Robotic Unit to oversee the project with Starship.
In 2016, the fast-food chain tested ground-based autonomous vehicles for pizza delivery in Australia and New Zealand. It also delivered a peri-peri chicken pizza via drone in New Zealand in November.
“With our growth plans over the next five to 10 years, we simply won’t have enough delivery drivers if we do not look to add to our fleet through initiatives such as this,” Domino’s Pizza Enterprises chief executive officer Don Meij said in a statement.
Starship also has a deal with Just East plc for food orders in London’s Greenwich borough.
Story by ProactiveInvestors
Source: http://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/175616/domino-s-pizza-to-use-robots-to-deliver-pizzas-to-customers-in-europe-175616.html
