FARK.com: (11200676) Starving flyers too weak to walk now can get up to 40 pounds of airport food robot-deliverd to their gates

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Robot delivers food to Philadelphia airport customers contact-free

People waiting at Philadelphia International Airport can now get food delivered to them, contact-free, thanks to a new robot.

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OdradekRex

6 days ago

Great - as if dodging kids, pets, and wanderers trying to make your connection isn't enough.

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AlgaeRancher

6 days ago

Sounds like the bomb delivery device in an action movie or crime drama.

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Rapmaster2000

6 days ago

Upcoming newscast: A drunken man in a Ron Jaworski uniform, pummeled the airport's delivery robot today.

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The Googles Do Nothing

6 days ago

Wall-E World.

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6nome

6 days ago

What's the deal with 40 pounds of airport food?

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baorao

6 days ago

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Ty Webb

6 days ago

Now THAT is the droid I've been looking for!

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Nick Nostril

6 days ago

40 pounds of food to the gate. Mofo will be sitting right next to me too, just like always.

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skinink

6 days ago

"Where is my Big Mac?"

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FarkingSmurf

6 days ago

It still requires an employee to lead it to the customer via a bluetooth link. How is that an improvement on that same employee just rolling your food to you in something like this...

Seems like a very expensive solution that solves no problem.

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Kraig57

6 days ago

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bughunter

6 days ago

Wow the new version of Nethack looks incredible!

/killed by a hare krishna

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BenSaw2

6 days ago

Yeah, there's no way someone would trip over that in a busy airport.

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IRestoreFurniture

6 days ago

6nome: What's the deal with 40 pounds of airport food?

That's as many as four tens.

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mutt

6 days ago

40 pounds of airport food? Do you need to take out a second mortgage on your home to pay for it?

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abhorrent1

6 days ago

The droid is called a gita - pronounced jee-tah.

Isitthough.jif

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Kalyco Jack

6 days ago

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NotARocketScientist

6 days ago

I can see that this would be useful for airport employees who don't want to leave their work station or parents of kids who have a mountain of luggage and getting everyone moving in the same direction is a major task. Having to be guided by an employee is stupid though. Just give the employee the to-go bag.

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FormlessOne

6 days ago

What's that? We haven't yet started a goddamned Crusade to get the name of that robot pronounced as "ghee-tah" instead of "jee-tah?"

You're slipping, Fark. Besides, it's clearly meant to be pronounced "jee-tah," like the "g" in "GIF."

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Natalie Portmanteau

6 days ago

FormlessOne: What's that? We haven't yet started a goddamned Crusade to get the name of that robot pronounced as "ghee-tah" instead of "jee-tah?"

You're slipping, Fark. Besides, it's clearly meant to be pronounced "jee-tah," like the "g" in "GIF."

The G in Gif stands for graphics doesn't it?
Do it like the electric company.
G - raphics
G- if

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fragMasterFlash

6 days ago

Is there another robot to help out in the restroom after eating 40 lbs of Taco Bell?

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unbelver

6 days ago

Natalie Portmanteau: The G in Gif stands for graphics doesn't it?

The "P" in JPEG stands for "Photographic" doesn't it?

So using your rules, it should be pronounced "jay-feg"

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EvilVanMan

6 days ago

You could have quite the party with 40 lbs of food.

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Natalie Portmanteau

6 days ago

unbelver: Natalie Portmanteau: The G in Gif stands for graphics doesn't it?

The "P" in JPEG stands for "Photographic" doesn't it?

So using your rules, it should be pronounced "jay-feg"

Heh. That would be funny. But I take your point.

I looked around a little about pronouncing acronyms based on the component words and the debate over that seems to be as well settled as the gif / jif debate.

I'm going to keep saying gif, but I'll stop arguing about it.

Well, wait, who created gifts? What do they call them?

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fragMasterFlash

6 days ago

unbelver: So using your rules, it should be pronounced "jay-feg"

Her name is Lenna...

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