Which is where the Noid comes back into the picture. The Noid's new nemesis is Nuro's R2 robot, the driverless vehicle that is being rolled out for deliveries from one store in Houston's Woodland Heights neighborhood 'on select dates and times,'. The company is based in Mountain View, California, and backed-up by Softbank. Founded by two ex-Google engineers (one of them part of the founding team at Google’s self-driving car project, now known as Waymo). And the company is still trying to revolutionize the delivery game, as it’s currently testing self-driving, occupantless, on-road Nuro R2 pizza delivery robots. Nuro is a startup building autonomous self-driving delivery vehicles. That 30-minute guarantee stuck in people’s minds right alongside the Noid, and Domino’s sold a whole heckuva lot of pizzas by revolutionizing the delivery game. While you may remember the Noid, aka “that nasty dude is after your food” (as one old ad annoying chimed), it’s also a good bet you don’t really know what the heck he was, other than some sort of dastardly mashup of the Easter Bunny and the Hamburglar, who really wanted to thwart Domino’s drivers from delivering piping hot pizza to your door in 30 minutes or less, guaranteed. But while that memory may be dearly departed, odds are good you still vaguely recall the groundbreaking pizza company’s 1986 ad campaign, which implored would-be pizza delivery recipients to “Avoid the Noid.” Known for attempting to prevent pizzas from. If you were a pizza-loving kid growing up in the ‘80s, there’s a good bet you had your local Domino's number memorized (since you didn’t have a smartphone to remember it for you). After 26 long years, Domino’s Pizza has fully brought back one of the most successful mischievous mascots of the ’80s and ’90s The Noid. But while he’s still trying to disrupt delivery times, the punky bunny-eared bandit is no longer going after Domino’s drivers - now he’s going after their autonomous vehicles. Ladies and gentlemen of the Neon Decade, let your nostalgia flags fly, because Domino’s Pizza is bringing back its old ‘80s mascot, the Noid.
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