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Re:The Curious Surge of Productivity in U.S. Restaurants by traverseda on Saturday March 15, 2025 @02:15PM (#43374238)
I'm disappointed society hasn't revisited pneumatic tube networks since we got good at packet switching and RFIDs and computing in general.
Re:The Curious Surge of Productivity in U.S. Restaurants by evan_ on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:58PM (#43375704)
They're still used pretty heavily in hospitals and they do take advantage of newer technology like RFID for routing.

Separately, there's a very cool startup called Pipedream that does autonomous underground delivery robots that are kind of the next iteration of the concept.