The world's biggest pizza company is teaming up with Nuro, a Silicon Valley startup that makes unmanned delivery vehicles.
Nuro, the SoftBank-funded robotics company, has been delivering groceries with self-driving vehicles from Kroger stores in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Houston. “We are always looking for new ways to innovate and evolve the delivery experience for our customers,” Kevin Vasconi, Domino’s chief information offer, said in a statement. “Nuro’s vehicles are specially designed to optimize the food delivery experience. The opportunity to bring our customers the choice of an unmanned delivery experience, and our operators an additional delivery solution during a busy store rush, is an important part of our autonomous vehicle testing.
The service will initially be restricted to a limited number of participating Domino’s outlets. Online customers of those stores will be able to track their delivery vehicle online through the Domino’s app, which will send them a personal identification number they can use to unlock the compartment containing their pizza.
Because Houston didn’t already have enough bad pizza!