Food delivery robots to take to London's streets

Meals on wheels: The robots will deliver food within a 3 mile radius
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An army of autonomous robots will deliver takeaways to hungry Londoners.

Starship Technologies, created by the founders of Skype, has developed the six-wheeled autonomous robots that will deliver food for takeaway firms Just Eat and Pronto.

The zero emission robots, which can travel at speeds of up to 4mph, will be able to deliver food to customers within a 3 mile radius of the takeaway restaurant.

Customers receiving their meals via robot will be sent a code via text to open the robot and gain access their food.

Just Eat chief product and technology officer Fernando Fanton said: “We’ve always been committed to offering our customers new ways to order and pay for their food and now we’re right at the heart of a new way of delivering food which is exciting for us as it will be for those who find a robot on their doorstep.”

The robots have already been tested on the Greenwich Peninsular and according to Starship Technologies, have delivered food to more than 400,000 people without being in a single accident.

Stroll with it: the speed of a Starship robot is limited to 4mph to make life easier for pedestrians

Starship Technologies founder Ahti Heinla said that the partnerships with Just Eat and Pronto were part of the next phase of their development in running real robotic delivery services.

The testing programme will begin within the next few months and details of the restaurants taking part will be announced shortly.

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