How to take your Groceries Home without Lifting a Hand — Got Robot
If you are disabled, elderly, sick or physically limited, I understand using perhaps a robot but otherwise I think if you are too lazy to carry your own grocery, perhaps you shouldn’t eat so much. This may be beneficial toward your health, less food, less eating, less calories and perhaps a little fasting will pay dividends toward your health.
Grocery-carrying robots are rolling out on the streets. Watch where you are walking they may be walking right next too you. Don’t be stunned or frightened, the robot is for someone who can’t or choose not too carry their own grocery.
The robot, rover, follows people like a dog and cost $3,250. It maybe cheaper to just load the food on your dog’s back, save the money and have a better life for you and your dog. Just a joke!! Don’t accuse me of dog abuse! Perhaps, get a wagon hitch it to your dog somehow and wholah take your groceries home!
Leading the way for consumers usage are corporations like Amazon, FedEx, Ford, universities, Pizza Hut, Walmart, Target and Walgreens who are already experimenting with sending delivery robots to doorsteps in the local communities. What happens if the robot gets robbed on the way to the doorsteps or gets hijacked? Are these robots going to replace delivery people, saving dollars and reducing staff? While your delivery staff maybe depleted, someone has to load these robots and they rely on remote pilots to troubleshoot navigation problems. It is a machine!! What happens when it rains? Customers have to check a phone app to tell the vehicle where to go and to unlock the bin once it arrives. Hmm!! This is going to be interesting!
Hey this is a lot of money for a grocery carrying robot. Have we become so high-tech that we are no good for ourselves? While it may be a novelty to some but that will wear off very quickly. It’s practicability is not viable for long life on the streets just carrying groceries.
From what I read, this rover of twenty pounds doesn’t require a GPS Navigation system, it just locks on to it’s owner and tracks every step. Starship Technologies is dispatching their delivery robots for $1.99 to deliver lunch from Panda Express and coffee from Starbucks. Should we trust this? What happens if someone interrupts this delivery with mischievousness? If I wanted to taint someone coffee, I would have easy access. Lol!! Starbucks had already employed hundreds of these rovers.
In conclusion, the jury is still out on these rovers. They appear to be not only super expensive but impractical for the average person. Well, they don’t have my vote, because I don’t want a lot of robots running around my neighborhood. That site is hideous!! As you can surmise, my vote is “No”, if anyone hasn’t concluded that yet.
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EP McKnight a writer, teacher, stage playwright, fitness coach and constant dreamer. She is a GCU doctorate student in Performance Psychology, Graduate and Undergraduate in Educational Psychology and Communications at Fordham University New York, New York. She’s on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and you can read more of her on www.epmcknight.com
