A fleet of snack-filled robots are now delivering quick bites to students at one California university.
PepsiCo's Hello Goodness-branded snackbots, which look like food coolers on wheels, have started operation Thursday at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. These robots can be summoned with an iOS app to any of 50 spots across the college's 175-acre campus, allowing students to pick up healthy snacks like chips and iced tea.
It doesn't appear that they distribute any kind of beer or alcohol at this time (because if I saw a rolling cooler robot at a college campus, of course I'd wonder about that), but I've sent a line to PepsiCo to confirm.
The robots can travel 20 miles on a single charge, include a camera with headlights for seeing pathways and all-wheel drive capabilities for steep hills.