COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Students at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville can now have their meals delivered by Starship food delivery robots.
Users order food through an app. A human runner loads the items, and the robot takes over from there.
"It runs off a GPS to keep its location," Caden Reynolds said. "As a student employee, I’m currently a technician for the Starship program," Reynolds said.
"I make sure that these are always operating," he said. "There’s always a bot on campus."
The robots not only provide another food delivery option, but it's an educational and business opportunity for the students.
"It needs people to load the food into the robot, take the orders, all of that, so it has actually increased the opportunities for student employment," said Tennessee Tech President Philip Oldham.
The university noted the robots are creating opportunities for students in both technology and business. About 15 students help keep the robots rolling, including the runners who pick up the food and place it into the robots.
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