Domino Pizza starts unmanned pizza delivery using automatic driving robot 'DRU'

Domino Pizza is the world's first commercial unmanned automatic driving delivery robot "DRU(Domino's Robotic Unit) "announced. A home delivery test has been started to deliver pizza unattended to the home who actually ordered pizza.

DRU - Domino's Robotic Unit - Autonomous Delivery Vehicle
https://www.dominos.com.au/inside-dominos/technology/dru

World's First! Automatic Driving Delivery Robot Appears for Commercial Use | Domino Pizza
http://www.dominos.jp/technology/dru/index.html

The DRU is equipped with a container for putting pizza in the top of the main body, a robot that runs with four wheel tires and delivers pizza. Somehow the movie "WallyWallie and Eve 's appearance seems to have coalesced.


Domino · Pizza logo on the side.


The size is 740 mm in width, 1000 mm in depth, 922 mm in height. The weight is 190 kg, and it can be delivered from the store to the radius of 20 km. The maximum speed is 20 km / h.


You can actually see the DRU delivering pizzas and the development scenery of the DRU from the following movies.

Introducing DRU - YouTube


Domino Pizza is Australia's startupMarathon TargetsWe have collaborated to develop an unmanned delivery robot. The prototype looks pretty funny, but the design that the front light looks like a smiley mark.


In order to deliver warm pizza to the eyes of customers, we installed an oven on the back.


Marathon Targets also develops military robots, and military unmanned robot technology is used for suspension of pizza home delivery robot.


Wrapping the cloth around the robot, it is quietly performing a road test.


It seems that we succeeded in delivering pizza to the customer safely.


Further testing will be done and further improvements will be made.


Also, in cooperation with a product design company in Australia, he aimed for a robot with an unprecedented design.


And "DRU" is completed.


"TOP SECRET" The box with the sticker affixed.


The side opened and the DRU popped out.


A home delivery test was carried out saying whether you can actually deliver pizza unattended from the domino / pizza store to the customer's home who ordered pizza. When the clerk presses the head of the DRU, the container for putting pizza rises.


DRU with pizza departed for delivery.


Inside the store, clerks are checking DRUs' running.


DRU will run at a slow speed throughout the city, but to the appearance of a robot that has never been seen, the man who is running is not thinking "I wonder what it is"!


People who were talking in front of the house also nailed to the DRU who passed.


Since the DRU is equipped with a sensor in front, when detecting an obstacle while driving it will automatically detect ... ....


Run avoiding obstacles.


In addition, it is possible to deliver pizza quickly by automatically judging the shortest distance to the delivery destination.


We are checking the DRU route on the map at the store.


Arrived at the customer's home who ordered pizza safely.


Upon arrival, the top of the DRU opens automatically ......


Customers can receive pizza and drinks. Since the carry box is divided into two layers of warmth and cold, it is possible to carry pizza and cold drinks at the same time at the same time.


The customer who received the pizza from the DRU is nicolle.


Note that the DRU is delivering in some areas of Queensland, Australia at the time of writing the article. Domino Pizza commented, "With the introduction of DRU, unmanned pizza delivery technology will make a big step forward toward practical application."