sidewalk delivery robots

Chick-fil-A pilots autonomous robot delivery with Refraction AI

A Chick-fil-A sign

As drone delivery takes flight in the suburbs, a different kind of compact, driverless vehicle is making inroads in cities.

Ground-based robot delivery companies are transforming the urban final mile by using every part of the road to make deliveries. Sidewalks, bike lanes, margins, you name it — autonomous robots from Starship Technologies, Nuro, Kiwibots and others are smart enough to take deliveries anywhere. And they’re being deployed by brands like Safeway, Dominos and merchants using...

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Uber Eats, Motional launch driverless delivery in Santa Monica

Uber Eats app provides autonomous delivery

Food delivery apps found a winner when they added the “leave at door” option to limit customers’ interactions with couriers. But what if your food wasn’t delivered by a human courier at all?

That’s exactly what Uber Eats (NYSE: UBER) and Motional are doing in a new delivery pilot. Launched Monday in Santa Monica, California, the service combines Uber Eats’ delivery platform with Boston-based Motional’s driverless vehicle technology to enable end-to-end food deliveries — no driver necessary.

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Amazon delivery robots head south

Amazon Scout Atlanta

Amazon (AMZN) Scout, the e-giant’s electric autonomous delivery division, has expanded service to neighborhoods in Atlanta and Franklin, Tennessee, as a convergence of e-commerce, the pandemic and autonomous technology fuels interest in sidewalk delivery robots.

Scout, a six-wheeled robot, is already delivering packages in Snohomish County, Washington, and the Irvine-area of California. The expanded service, announced this week, will adhere to a similar schedule, delivering Monday through Friday...

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