Robots are carting fried chicken through Chicago streets. Drones are parachuting Panera strawberry lemonade down to homes in Charlotte, N.C. AI-powered scales at fast-food restaurants are making sure ...

DoorDash has a new delivery partner: Coco the robot. Starting this week, some customers in Los Angeles and Chicago have the option to select robot delivery from hundreds of participating merchants in ...

The hype around delivery robots has fizzled, but DoorDash is still determined to launch Dot, an adorable red bot. It can ride on roads and in bike lanes, where it will face daunting challenges. When ...

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Food delivery robots were once a novelty on college campuses. Now, they're more common than ever. Starship leads the space, operating on 60 college campuses, along with Robot.com and Avride. As robot ...

Courtney doesn’t have eyes, but it’s got sensors everywhere. There are two blinking lights on the front of its boxy body to approximate wide, moony pupils. It’s been described as a “large cooler on ...

As Google, Amazon, Uber, DoorDash, and a swarm of startups race to automate last-mile logistics with drones and delivery robots, Starship has quietly built one of the largest real-world fleets. With ...

The robot invasion is coming to your neighborhood. Coco Robotics, a startup born on the UCLA campus, is about to carpet-bomb the city with hundreds of additional adorable delivery bots recently ...

Autonomous delivery vehicles are arriving faster than most restaurant operators expected. Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. DoorDash is going all in on autonomous robotic delivery. Today the delivery company ...

Peyton Perry heard a rumor that delivery robots would be coming to campus when she was a student at Fairfield University. Soon after, she saw her first robot at a campus Starbucks. She ordered food ...