Starship Robot

Yesterday as I was taking my rosary walk at lunchtime, I saw a strange vehicle that looked like a shiny white cooler on wheels, with an orange flag over it. It was across the street from me, and then it turned and went a different direction, so I continued on to my usual path. Today at lunch I was just walking (since I pray the rosary during my adoration hour on Tuesdays), so when the vehicle appeared in my path again, I followed it. It seemed like a remote control toy, but I could not see any obvious person who was controlling it. It stopped, and I saw there was a sign on it that said, “Open Here.” And then what? Was there candy? Was there a bomb? I wasn’t brave enough to find out. I also noticed that it was called “Starship” and that Starship was hiring. I kept walking, and it followed me like a little dog, but when I stopped and turned around, it stopped, seemed to think a moment, and went around me. I took a picture of it and sent it to Rich, who knew all about Starship robots. He sent me a link to their homepage, so I saw they were hiring a robot technician here in town, and Kathbert used to be a robot technician, so I sent the link to her. Then later I had to run an errand on campus, and the Starship robot was hanging around my building again. It is supposed to be a delivery system, so maybe it’s useful on campus, but I have a feeling they are mostly just advertising to find that robot technician. Though why they would have it hang around the language building instead of the engineering campus is beyond me.

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