{"id":3350,"date":"2017-03-11T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2017-03-11T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T09:25:00","slug":"food-delivery-future-robots-bringing-meals-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/03\/11\/food-delivery-future-robots-bringing-meals-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Food delivery of the future? Robots bringing meals to DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some hungry customers in the nation\u2019s capital may be surprised to discover a robot is delivering their pastrami on rye.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The delivery service Postmates is using knee-high, six-wheeled robots to bring food to customers. The robots can travel up to 4 mph and use sensors and cameras to navigate sidewalks and cross the street. Initially, the robots will be accompanied by a person, but eventually their progress will be monitored remotely.<\/p>\n<p>Postmates says it\u2019s the first service of its kind in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Customers put their orders in online and once the robot arrives, they get a text with a code to unlock it and grab their food.<\/p>\n<p>Postmates already uses human couriers to deliver food and goods in scores of cities. The robots are made by Starship Technologies.\u2014AP<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0www.starship.xyz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some hungry customers in the nation\u2019s capital may be surprised to discover a robot is delivering their pastrami on rye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}