At Oregon State University in the US city of Corvallis, autonomous robots from Starship Technologies deliver food to students on campus 20, Professor: inside and staff of the university. The six-wheeled delivery robots have been in use there since Wednesday and should enable contactless food deliveries in times of the corona pandemic in order to avoid infection between human suppliers and customers.

According to Oregon State University, the idea of ​​delivering food with robots originated before the corona pandemic. The University of Oregon Housing & Dining Services worked with Memorial Union Retail Services to develop plans for delivering food to campus. The spread of the corona virus and the temporary closure of the university in lockdown would then have contributed to the implementation of the project.

With AI to the delivery location Compact six-wheeled delivery robots are used, which are also equipped with an orange pennant so that they can be better seen on the paths. The entire campus, which is around two square kilometers in size, was mapped by the robots using GPS so that the delivery points could be precisely approached with the aid of a computer. A robot can take a maximum of around nine kilograms of food.

The robots use a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and sensors to safely avoid obstacles and reach their destination without accidents. A team monitors