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Obviously if a person is delivering the order then customers want it delivered all the way to their door. But if the robotic version is significantly cheaper or faster (which it will be) the vast majority of people will make the sacrifice of walking down their front steps.
why couldn't it deliver to your door?
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I think the a robot like that is going to be far more expensive (in both construction and maintenance) than a simple wheeled vehicle.
If I'm willing to walk 50 feet to the curb I'm willing to walk 150 feet to the food truck. I only order doordash when I'm hungover/sick/otherwise too lazy to get dressed and leave the house.
Unfortunately, Nuro's pivot away from this model means that the answer may be a ways away. We might get DoorDash via drone first, with the Trump DOT's progress on that front...
Reliably mediocre robots would be a big step up from occasionally completely clueless humans
What would it take to finance a humanoid to walk to your door? 20 delivery per day * $1 per can finance a $20K robot (6% over 3 years). This will not be an issue either way.
People in large apartments often already do this. The delivery people cant use the elevator
Also a robotic solution could eventually include something that delivers that last 50 feet. But if it's cheaper, a lot of people will be fine with that walk.
this is obviously not a necessary half-measure, but even cheap delivery from any restaurant in the city to a depot 1000 feet away would be great
Isn't another problem on the restaurant's end? Having to walk an order outside is pretty non-trivial for any restaurant that doesn't have a road-accessible window (I don't know what share of food delivery orders is fast-food)
tbh at gmu we had robot food delivery and they seemed slower than humans bc they'd get stuck at intersections. still it's way less work than walking all the way across campus tho
kinda cute to see a line of robots waiting to cross the road during lunch/dinnertime too
1) These robots exist
2) Do the delivery people actually come to your apartment door now? A lot of them already stop at the front of the building and you come down to get your food.
I won't be satisfied until the robot sets the table, plates the food for me and gently moves my jaw up and down to aid in mastication. Then, I will tip the robot up to 5%.
The intuition is correct in the suburbs. Much less so in the city. Unless the delivery cost is significantly less, in which case people will walk down their driveway in the snow and rain - maybe?
What next? Put on pants, sober up, pause the movie and/or game?
When they realize they don’t have to tip they will go running to the curb 
It would work on a practical level, but the first time someone wheelchair-bound hurt themselves navigating from the front door to the curb, you're getting sued for medical expenses and prosecuted under the ADA for not having made the reasonable accommodation of hiring a human.
Obviously you’ve never delivered food before. 25% of people won’t answer the door, won’t answer the phone, etc.
You’re misreading things. People don’t like you guys because you are fundamentally inhuman. Stop beating around the bush and accept your situation