The new robots scooting along downtown sidewalks are getting lots of attention and photos.
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Austin-based Avride — as in autonomous vehicle ride — launched delivery service from two downtown Dallas restaurants, Salsa Limon and Bread Zepplin, this week. The company has been working in other countries and cities around the world and has more than 200,000 successful deliveries. We also learned that you can't explicitly request a robot; if the 'bots are busy, again, you get a regular ol' human driver. And it's also really hard to cancel an order — drivers hate that . This day was full of learning.
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