The robots delivering takeaways to Edinburgh college students

Students can have meals delivered by robots underneath a trial venture underneath approach at University of Edinburgh.

Known as Pixie, the autonomous autos can journey alongside non-public roads on campus.

Students on the college’s King’s Building are in a position to order up meals or drinks utilizing an app.

The venture hopes to reveal the potential for autonomous autos in different settings corresponding to airports or the NHS.

But, how shut are we to that as a actuality?

BBC Scotland News visited the University of Edinburgh, the place a workforce of scientists have developed an autonomous meals supply robotic.