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Starship pulls its delivery robots off U.S. college campuses to chase grocery orders
The company says campus work taught it to run robots at scale. At least two campuses lost service within a week of the announcement.
Physical AI
Delivery robots
Sidewalk and road delivery robots on campuses and city streets.
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DoorDash builds its own delivery robot and starts in the Phoenix suburbs
Dot rides bike lanes, roads and sidewalks at up to 20 mph. DoorDash gave specs and a launch area, but not costs or merchant counts.
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Old Dominion University adds Starship delivery robots, ordered through Grubhub
The university says students asked for it. What it pays, and what students pay, isn't in the release.
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Serve's robots reach Dallas-Fort Worth, while its cost of revenue runs four times its revenue
Serve opened Uptown Dallas to robot delivery through Uber Eats. In the same quarter, its cost of revenue was $1.9 million against $440,465 in revenue.
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Sidewalk robots head to Miami on Uber Eats
Serve Robotics brought its delivery robots to Miami Beach and Brickell for Shake Shack and Mister O1 orders. It didn't say how many robots, or what a delivery costs.
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Starship delivery robots roll onto the University of Minnesota campus in a one-year Minneapolis pilot
About 1,200 orders in, the pilot has student fans, a few-dollar fee and a city council member asking what it means for delivery workers.