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Grocery giant Albertsons announced today that it has partnered with Tortoise to pilot remote-controlled robot grocery delivery at two Safeway stores in Northern California. Tortoise is a little different from […]
Uber has officially spun out its Postmates X division to become its own standalone company now called Serve Robotics. The news was first reported by TechCrunch and confirms rumblings about […]
Gatik, which makes autonomous delivery vehicles for the middle-mile, announced today that it has received $997,706 million CAD (~$788,511 USD) from Ontario’s Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN) R&D Partnership Fun, […]
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Allowing robots to handle the last mile of these deliveries could do much to make restaurant and grocery delivery faster, enable those deliveries to occur around the clock, and bring […]
Two years ago, I predicted that 2019 would be a breakout year for food robots. Let’s just say that I was a little premature with that particular prognostication. In my […]
Self Point and Tortoise announced today that they have partnered up to make same-day robot delivery available to local grocers. Self Point makes digital commerce software that allows grocery retailers […]
Nuro announced today that it has raised a $500 million Series C round of funding. The round was led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, with […]
Save Mart announced today that it it is now using Starship’s sidewalk robots for grocery delivery in Modesto, CA. This is the first grocery partnership for Starship in the U.S. […]
Up to now, San Francisco-based Tortoise has mostly been known for its technology that helps manage micro-mobility fleets like electric scooters and bikes. But earlier this week the company took […]
The big news this week was that Uber is acquiring rival food delivery service Postmates for $2.65 billion in an all-stock deal. There is a lot to be determined about […]
