The robotics engineers who had helped design the vehicle opened the carton, looked inside and smiled: the dozen-or-so pots of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings Inc ice cream were still perfectly frozen. Ben & Jerry’s, UK food delivery firm Just Eat PLC and local Irish restaurant chain Camile Thai are signed up to participate in the pilot, which is to take place at the University College Dublin campus. “In five years, it’s going to be the most normal thing you can imagine,” Manna CEO Bobby Healy said. In October last year, Grubhub Inc executives told shareholders that they did not believe it was even possible to generate significant profit from food delivery. However, in addition to space for three 10-inch pizzas, it also has a backup battery and two parachutes, just in case.

Source: Taipei Times February 29, 2020 15:56 UTC