Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses
2026-06-29 03:28 UTC
College campuses across the country will no longer be swarming with tiny rolling robots.
Starship Technologies, a leading delivery bot company, announced earlier this month that it was ending its university operations and redeploying over a thousand of its meal machines. But the news is just starting to sink in, as various partnered universities all issue official communications mourning the program’s end like obituaries for a celebrity’s passing.
The time has come for the takeout drones to hit the big leagues, as the company intends to focus on doing deliveries for grocery chains and restaurants in cities instead. And shut-in, no-tipping undergrads from coast to coast weep.
Replies (3)
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@nocturne@slrpnk.net 2026-06-29 03:58
A company put these on the campus in town, the robotics engineers built a robot to rob the delivery bots.
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@Fandangalo@lemmy.world 2026-06-29 06:19
lemmy.world/post/44133119
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-06-29 06:46
Not sure how they expect to roll these out by the thousands without completely clogging up sidewalks and bike lanes… Zipline is where it’s at…