Apply HN: Zippy, self driving sidewalk meal delivery robots
At Zippy, we're building self driving delivery robots that navigate the sidewalk to deliver meals from restaurants to homes. They use self driving technology including 3D cameras to go from a pizza/burrito place to the customer's front door, avoiding pedestrians along the way. The robot cart currently is driven via 3G connection remotely over the internet, so it can be in another suburb over, with it streaming live video back. We've driven it down to the end of the street & back remotely. And we're working with GPS, sensors etc for SLAM. (We'd love to work with Varden Labs to cross-pollinate our self driving tech, that golf cart looks rad. http://abc7.com/technology/driverless-shuttle-giving-students-rides-around-mt-sac/1229716/) Dominos recently launched a self driving pizza delivery robot in Australia, and other startups a
Why it failed
At Zippy, we're building self driving delivery robots that navigate the sidewalk to deliver meals from restaurants to homes. They use self driving technology including 3D cameras to go from a pizza/burrito place to the customer's front door, avoiding pedestrians al
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- tomjacobs
- Ended
- 2016
- Source
- hackernews