Mobility
Serve Robotics Inc., a developer of sidewalk delivery robots, announced a partnership with Grubhub, a subsidiary of Wonder, to offer robotic deliveries on the Grubhub marketplace starting in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, Va. The service will be available from more than 100 participating Grubhub merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles, with additional restaurants expected to join over time.
This partnership marks a significant expansion for Serve, which has also launched in two new markets: Washington, D.C., and San Jose, Calif., both in partnership with DoorDash. In San Jose, Serve’s first Bay Area market, robots have completed their first month of deliveries. In Washington, D.C., robots will deliver in Dupont Circle and parts of downtown.
“Not long ago, our robots were delivering dinner in a handful of neighborhoods. Today, they’re rolling into new cities from San Jose, California’s third largest city, to the nation’s capital.”
Serve is also launching its first microdepot in Miami, a new class of small-footprint operating sites that handle robot staging, charging, dispatch, and maintenance without the build-out time of a full-scale facility. Microdepots require minimal infrastructure and can be deployed quickly.
“Welcoming Wonder and Grubhub to our network is the clearest signal yet of where we are headed,” said Ali Kashani, co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics. “Every new partner puts more robots to work, and every delivery makes the whole fleet smarter.”
Source: The Robot Report