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Engineering360: "Robotic vending machine debuts on college campus"

01/04/2019 1:29 PM

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01/05/2019 9:52 PM

Can't college students nowadays even walk to the vending machines?
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01/06/2019 11:19 PM

Stay tuned for part 2 of our story :

How three robot tenders got replaced by a single AI unit.
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Re: Robotic vending machine debuts on college campus

01/10/2019 1:17 PM

I can imagine this happening, although it might take a bit of hacking: Students call the snackbot to their location, get the snack and climb on to ride it to the next location, or load it with some other contraband for a free delivery.

I would guess Pepsi Co has thought of a way to prevent that but college students can be pretty ingenious in figuring out how to avoid expending (their own) energy.
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01/10/2019 9:04 PM

If college students removed the robots outer shell, would the robots be expelled from campus for lolling about in the nude ?
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