Uber Eats’ New Out Of The Box Tech Keeps Your Food In The Box

We all hate it when our food gets damaged in transit. Mangled pizza, deformed birthday cakes, spilt soup - it’s a messy, annoying problem that affects both the delivery rider and the customer. With that in mind, Korean designers Hyeonji Roh and Minju Kim have come up with a rather novel solution: a gyroscope-enhanced delivery container for Uber Eats’ delivery scooters, called the Uber Balance.

The delivery container is mounted into a three-axis gyroscope. As the scooter tilts while changing direction, the gyroscope helps minimise sudden directional changes to the delivery container, thus keeping its contents intact. The container is lockable and heat-proof too, so your food is delivered the way the restaurant wants it to. Of course, vertical shocks due to road undulations will still have to be handled by the scooter’s shock absorbers.

Nevertheless, this seemingly simple engineering solution is a great way to improve the quality of food delivery, particularly in this pandemic-stricken world where getting the food delivered seems to be a lot safer than dining in at restaurants.

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We’d love to see widespread implementation of this in delivery scooter fleets. However, this will also increase the cost of delivery - something that may not be welcome in a cost-conscious country like ours. Let us know your opinions in the comments below: