Nuro’s Autonomous Delivery Vehicle Drives into the Smithsonian’s Collections
Just ahead of Earth Day, the Smithsonian announced a self-driving delivery vehicle from Nuro—powered by sustainable energy—has been added to the museum’s robot collections at the National Museum of American History. Collecting the R1 from Nuro, the Mountain View,...
Starship Robots on a Roll: Orders up 72 Percent at George Mason University
George Mason University, the first U.S. college campus to offer autonomous food delivery, and Starship Technologies are celebrating four years of service and over 330,000 orders placed. The company launched the service in 2019 with a fleet of 25 robots, which has...
Grubhub Ends Robot Delivery Partnership with Russia’s Yandex
Just eight months after announcing a robotic delivery partnership with Yandex Self-Driving Group, a division of the Russian multinational tech group, Grubhub has severed its ties in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. First announced last July, Grubhub signed a...
Starship Raises $100M in 30 Days, Plots New Markets
Starship Technologies is on a triumphant roll as the delivery robot provider announces raising $100 million in the last 30 days, including its most recent $42 million Series B funding round. Together, these funds will help Starship further scale its autonomous drone...
Starting in September
Off Premises University is a new digital content series designed to inform and educate restaurant operators on some of the most critical off-premises issues affecting their business and the best practices to address them.
