TL;DR: Uber Eats now offers autonomous robot delivery alongside couriers in select cities. For restaurants, the only change is that the handoff goes to a robot. Robot Deliveries: A New Way to Keep Your Orders Moving Key points ・🤖 Fully electric, autonomous robots travel on sidewalks and avoid obstacles with onboard sensors ・🤝 Partners are Avride, Cartken, Coco, and Serve ・📈 Hundreds of thousands of deliveries across more than 10 cities ・⏱️ The robot waits up to 10 minutes at pickup, then leaves on a direct route once the lid is closed ・🔒 Insulated compartment that only the ordering customer can unlock ・🍕 Fits about six pizzas plus drinks, moving at walking speed (3-5 mph) The scale is notable, but the post gives no city names or measured delivery-time data. Low operational burden for restaurants could be the key to adoption. #UberEats# #DeliveryRobots#

$NBIS Avride is significantly expanding its autonomous delivery robot operations across U.S. college campuses. By September, the company expects to have more than 1,000 active delivery robots operating across 25+ campuses, with a potential reach of more than 610,000 students. That would represent roughly 4.5x its previous campus footprint. Avride has already launched on 10 additional campuses this semester, with another 11 expected to go live by the end of September. The expansion is being supported by agreements with the three largest university dining-service providers in the U.S., whose combined networks span around 1,000 colleges and universities.