| Developers: | PepsiCo |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | January, 2019 |
| Branches: | Transport |
2018: Beginning of use
At the beginning of January, 2019 Pepsi in cooperation with Robby Technologies company started the park of unmanned vehicles in a campus of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, the State of California (USA), for delivery of food and drinks.
The robots who received the name Snackbot are independent mobile automatic machines with drinks and snack. Such products Pepsi as Smartfood Delight, Baked Lay's, SunChips, Pure Leaf Tea, Bubly, Lifewtr and Starbucks Cold Brew are included in the delivery of bots. UAVs are capable to deliver orders in a radius more than 32 kilometers without recharge and are equipped with the camera with headlights which allow them to be guided independently in the dark or in rainy weather. Within the project the campus of the University of the Pacific of 175 acres was separated into 50 zones, and students can place orders using the application for iOS from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m., having specified a delivery zone.
Snackbot Way was paved by Serve – the robots developed by Postmates X laboratory. Serve as Snackbot UAVs, can independently move on sidewalks and city streets and transfer to 23 kilograms at distance 40 kilometers.
Pepsi and Postmates - not the only companies trying to take a part of the profitable market of pilotless delivery. Well financed startups, such as Marble, Starship Technologies, Boxbot, Dispatch and Robby, are ready to the serious competition long ago. Analysts of McKinsey predict that by 2025 pilotless robots of delivery, such as Serve and Snackbot, will service 85% of deliveries.
As well as in case of cooperation of Pepsi and Robby Technologies, the largest producers of products and the trading companies aim to combine efforts with developers of UAVs. Robomart announced start of pilotless grocery store on wheels, Udelv agreed with food networks Farmstead in Oklahoma City for delivery of perishable products to a threshold of clients, and Ford cooperates with Postmates for the goods delivery from Walmart shops in the district of Miami.[1]
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