![]() ![]() He might look a little different to our current team of delivery experts and that's because he is! DRU is an autonomous delivery vehicle and is set to take the world by storm. ![]() "He's our newest recruit to the Domino's family. "Meet DRU," says the Domino's Australia website. It can monitor and adjust its speed to suit the terrain and has powerful suspension to ensure the customer's pizza arrives with all the toppings still on top. ![]() The robot has insulated compartments designed to keep hot food hot and cold drinks and ice-cream cold. Using a smorgasbord of sensors and AI technology, DRU can travel along sidewalks and cross streets, all the while perceiving and, where necessary, avoiding people and obstacles. The robot makes use of the reams of GPS data which has been gathered from its human colleagues as they've delivered Domino's products over the years and combines it with the very latest in driverless vehicle technology. The result of the collaboration between Domino's and Marathon Robotics is a friendly-looking little bot named DRU (standing for Domino's Robotic Unit). Now, with its Marathon-powered military-grade delivery robot, it appears that day has come. Unfortunately, the news and accompanying video transpired to be an April Fool's Day joke - though it did show us that one day we might be looking at a world with driverless delivery vehicles motoring around the streets. Then, on April 1, 2015, UK pizza lovers appeared to be treated to a Domino's delivery completed by no-less than a driverless motorbike. Dubbed the DomiCopter, the aerial drone took a piping hot pizza from the Domino's kitchen to a hungry customer in just a few minutes. Legendary pizza franchise Domino's made headlines back in 2013 when it completed the first ever pizza delivery by air. However, Marathon is now switching muskets for mozzarella and marinara as it moves into the pizza delivery game with Domino's. Why unlikely? Well, far from the bubbling cheeses of pizza ovens, Marathon Robotics is best-known for creating robotic moving targets, designed to help sharpen military soldiers' combat skills in live-fire exercises. In the race to win last-mile delivery, Domino's has formed an unlikely partnership with Sydney-based Marathon Robotics in an effort to bring freshly-cooked food to customers' doorsteps using autonomous delivery vehicles. ![]()
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