A gas-powered oven includes a cooking surface and a heat deflecting frame, such that the cooking surface and heat deflecting frame collectively define at least a portion of a cooking chamber. An outer housing extends around the cooking surface and the heat deflecting frame, with the outer housing having an opening formed therein and in communication with the cooking chamber. A first burner is connectable to a gas source and is located within the outer housing and spaced from the cooking chamber. The first burner is elongate and includes a first array of openings formed therein. A second burner is connectable to the gas source and extends into the cooking chamber toward a portion of the heat deflecting frame. The second burner includes a tapered passageway and an expanding passageway downstream of the tapered passageway to achieve desired flow characteristics of the gas flowing through the second burner.

A cooking stone apparatus with a rotatable cooking surface for use in conventional ovens, barbecue grills and the like includes a stationary bottom support plate and a cooking stone rotatably supported on top of the stationary bottom support plate. The cooking stone has a perimeter edge with one or more engagement points for receiving a tangential force without slippage, such that when a tangential force is applied to any of the one or more engagement points, the cooking stone rotates about the perpendicular axis of the support plate.

An oven comprising a housing defining a cooking chamber for receiving a food product for cooking, a door for closing the cooking chamber, and two or more cooking elements comprising at least a grill element and an oven element, wherein the cooking elements are operable independently of one another and a controller is provided for controlling the operation of the cooking elements, the controller being configured to allow the use of both the grill element and the cooking element in a cooking cycle whilst preventing the simultaneous operation of the grill element and the oven element.

Provided herein is a system for precise delivery of an item to a consumer by an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. The system performs image recognition algorithms to detect a primary entrance, navigate from a street address to the primary entrance, and to validate the customer upon delivery.

An autonomous robot vehicle in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes a conveyance system, a navigation system, a communication system configured to communicate with a food delivery management system, one or more storage modules including a storage compartment or a storage sub-compartment configured to store food items, one or more preparation modules including a preparation compartment or a preparation sub-compartment configured to prepare the food items, processor(s), and a memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor(s), cause the autonomous robot vehicle to, autonomously, receive via the communication system a food order for a destination, determine a travel route that includes the destination, control the conveyance system to travel the travel route to reach the destination, and prepare the food item while traveling on the travel route.

In general, cooking devices having at least one electric heating element and that are configured to cook various foods, including pizza, are provided. In some embodiments, the cooking device can include a housing having a base, a movable door coupled to the base that together define an interior cooking chamber. A cooking surface, such as a cooking stone, can be disposed proximate a heating element within the cooking chamber such that food, such as a pizza, can be placed on top of the cooking stone when inserted into the interior chamber. The heating element can be in operable communication with a controller configured to adjust the amount of heat supplied by the heating element to the interior chamber to optimize the cooking of a food, such as pizza, placed inside the interior chamber.

An autonomous robotic vehicle includes a conveyance system, a securable compartment configured to autonomously lock and unlock, a customer identification reader, at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the autonomous robotic vehicle to, autonomously: travel to a destination location of a customer; capture, by the customer identification reader at the destination location, a customer identification object; determine that the captured customer identification object matches an identity of the customer; unlock the securable compartment based on the determination; capture, by the product identification reader, a product identifier; and accept a product to be returned by locking the securable compartment. The securable compartment contains a product identification reader.

In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, an autonomous robot vehicle is disclosed. In various embodiments, the autonomous robot vehicle includes a first land conveyance system configured to travel on vehicle roadways, a navigation system configured to navigate to a destination location, an exterior housing, and a sub-robot vehicle carried within the exterior housing while the first land conveyance system autonomously travels on the vehicle roadways to the destination location. The sub-robot vehicle includes a second land conveyance system configured to travel on pedestrian terrain, one or more modules configured to store customer items where the module(s) include one or more compartments or sub-compartments, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor(s), cause the sub-robot vehicle to autonomously control the second land conveyance system to exit the exterior housing and travel the pedestrian terrain to a customer pickup location.

An autonomous robot vehicle includes a front side and an energy absorbing system. The front side includes a front bumper and a front face including a frame defining a cavity. The energy absorbing system includes an energy absorbing member mounted in the cavity of the frame, and an inflatable airbag. The energy absorbing member is configured to reduce impact on an object struck by the autonomous robot vehicle. The inflatable airbag is mounted on the front side of the autonomous robot vehicle such that when the inflatable airbag is deployed, the inflatable airbag is external to the autonomous robot vehicle.

An autonomous robot vehicle in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes a land vehicle conveyance system, a communication system configured to communicate with a remote human operator system, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor(s), cause the autonomous robot vehicle to receive via the communication system control instructions from the remote human operator system for controlling the land vehicle conveyance system, control the land vehicle conveyance system in accordance with the control instructions to perform travel, and autonomously control the land vehicle conveyance system in coordination with the control instructions from the remote human operator system to semi-autonomously perform travel.