Pizza Delivery Robot

Domino’s trial new pizza delivery robot that tracks down your location using coordinates provided by your smartphone.

16:45 22 March 2016

Domino’s are trialling a brand new driverless pizza delivery cars that use coordinates provided by smartphone as well as a sophisticated detection system to anticipate obstacles in the road. It is hoped that the robots will make deliveries faster and more efficient. The company also claims that the vehicles can carry four times as many pizzas as their “people-driven vehicles.”

 

Phil Zozra, Director of the Domino’s Pizza Redevelopment and New Knowledge division said: "We’ve been toying with driverless deliveries for a while, but we needed to make sure the tech was able to match up with our ideas.

 

"Now that we’ve got the bikes and the automation to the right level, we can’t wait to get the Domi-No-Drivers out on the road.

 

We’re not doing it just for the ‘wow’ factor, there are a range of innovation benefits too – the space we save by not having a driver means the Domi-No-Driver can carry four times as many pizzas as our previous generation of PDVs (People Driven Vehicles).”

 

"The fact we’ve developed on the L.I.D.A.R (Light Detection and Ranging) technology used in Google's driverless cars and equipped our Domi-No-Drivers with H.U.N.G.A.R (Hunger Detection and Ranging) to help them detect and navigate real-time obstacles, shows just how safe and sophisticated they are.

 

"We’ve tried to think of it from every angle so all you have to do is place your order and enjoy – hassle free.”