Uber Eats is partnering with sidewalk supply robotic firm Starship Applied sciences to ship meals within the U.Okay. beginning later this yr.
The businesses will begin the service within the Leeds and Sheffield areas “from choose retailers” in December and increase from there. Uber mentioned the service will increase to “further European markets in 2026” and the U.S. in 2027.
The tie-up with Starship is the newest in an more and more lengthy line of partnerships Uber has struck with autonomous automobile corporations of all sizes and styles. However Starship’s not the primary sidewalk robotic firm to work with Uber Eats. Uber’s meals supply arm has used Serve Robotics’ robots for a number of years within the U.S. Uber began utilizing Avride’s sidewalk robots earlier this yr, too.
Starship claims to have almost 3,000 of its six-wheeled supply robots in operation around the globe, throughout greater than 270 totally different places. The robots sometimes make deliveries in below half-hour and journey not more than two miles.
