Category: Delivery & Commerce
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For much of the past decade, CookUnity has operated as a subscription-based prepared meal service built around a network of professional chefs. This week, the company made its first major move beyond its own platform through a partnership with Airbnb, allowing guests to order chef-prepared meals directly through Airbnb as part of their short-term rental…
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There’s a new delivery robot in town, and its name is Dot. DoorDash announced the new delivery bot today, confirming months of rumors that they were working on their own robot. The robot, developed entirely by its internal DoorDash Labs team, is the delivery company’s first homegrown bet on delivery automation and street-level autonomy, signaling…
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For those of you who are skeptical about whether drone delivery will ever become a common way to deliver your pizza or groceries, I’m there with you. Several key factors need to be in place to ensure drones can deliver items quickly, at low cost, and, perhaps most of all, safely. One of the key…
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With this week’s news that Little Caesars pizza is partnering with Serve to deliver pizza, it’s clear that robotic delivery, whether on sidewalks, underground, or in the air, is fast becoming more mainstream. Despite many of these startups working on technology for close to a decade, the robot food delivery process still has a cumbersome…
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Zach Rash wanted to be a professional surfer. So much so, that in high school, there was more surfing than academics. That all changed when Rash reached UCLA and met Brad Squicciarini. It wasn’t long before the two spent every waking hour together in a small room building robots. “We spent like our entire life…
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An interesting set of stories came out over the past week, which showed how two retail giants are leveraging technology to help consumers get out of the store faster. One one hand, you have Amazon halving its Go store count to 16 locations, shifting focus to licensing its “Just Walk Out” technology to third-party retailers.…
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CookUnity has acquired Cookin, an online chef culinary commerce platform based in Toronto, the two companies announced this week. CookUnity, a New York City-based platform that delivers chef-created meals to consumers, will integrate Cookin’s 1,500 creators—ranging from home cooks to restaurant chefs—operating across 40 U.S. states and 10 Canadian provinces into their network of chef…
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Sidewalk robotic delivery Starship Technologies announced this week they are teaming up with Bolt, a European multiplatform delivery company, to launch a new food delivery service using Starship’s autonomous robots in Tallinn, Estonia. The launch, centered in Tallinn, has the potential to reach up to 180,000 residents according to Bolt. Starship’s robots will operate from…
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Serve Robotics Inc. and Wing Aviation announced a pilot program this week that will combine their delivery methods to extend the reach of restaurant deliveries across densely populated urban areas. According to the announcement, Serve’s robots will collect orders from restaurant curbsides and transport them to Wing’s AutoLoader hubs, where Wing’s drones will carry the…
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Ever since the founders of Skype launched Starship over eight years ago, we’ve seen an explosion of small-footprint delivery robots that navigate sidewalks to deliver their payloads to consumers. While these small robots sidestep many of the challenges and regulatory oversight needed for on-road travel, they are, in general, pretty small and usually only travel…
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Speedy Eats, a maker of unattended vending and retail technology, will debut its first location with a customer this summer. The company, which has been showcasing its unattended retail concept at its lab in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for the past year, will launch with an unnamed food operator in August, according to CEO Speed Bancroft.…
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Underground delivery startup Pipedream Labs announced it has raised $13 million in funding. Company CEO Garrett McCurrach disclosed the funding, led by Starship Ventures, with participation from Cortado Ventures, Myelin Ventures, and others, in a post on LinkedIn. The new capital infusion will primarily be utilized to enhance Pipedream’s “Instant Pickup” service and kick-start the…
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