Delivery robots may offer some sustainability advantages, like reduced air pollution, over car-based delivery, Serve said in the press release. Robotic fulfillment could also improve the efficiency of last-mile delivery. But legal problems stemming from disparate state and local rules on maximum bot weight, maximum bot speed, and other safety issues, could slow the large-scale deployment of delivery bots in some markets.
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Serve Robotics and Uber Eats have signed a commercial agreement to deploy Serve’s delivery robots at scale.
Uber will use up to 2,000 of Serve’s robots across unspecified U.S. delivery markets.
Upwards of 200 restaurants in the Los Angeles market already use Serve’s robots to complete deliveries, with robotic deliveries rising 30% month over month since Serve began offering delivery last year.
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