Doordash Customers In Miami Can Now Receive Their Food Orders From Robots

DoorDash is bringing its robot transportation work to Miami, pursuing an first rollout successful Los Angeles and Chicago earlier this twelvemonth pinch complete 600 participating merchants. The institution continues to activity pinch Coco Robotics arsenic portion of its push towards a "muliti-modal system" that allows it to make human, robot and drone deliveries astatine scale.

As good arsenic adding a 3rd metropolis to nan initiative, DoorDash besides now takes orders from DashMart, its delivery-only convenience shop concatenation for groceries and family items. This intends customers will person robot deliveries from nationalist grocers and retailers arsenic good arsenic restaurants.

DoorDash has a dedicated robotics and automation section called DoorDash Labs, which is focused connected forging caller partnerships that let it to meet accrued request pinch much environmentally friends methods of delivery. Earlier this twelvemonth it began operating drone deliveries successful Charlotte pinch Wing, and arsenic good arsenic utilizing Coco’s self-driving robots, DoorDash precocious introduced its ain in-house developed transportation robot called Dot.

Decidedly cuter than its Coco colleague, Dot is designed for speedy vicinity trips and is capable to navigate roads, arsenic good arsenic motorcycle lanes and sidewalks. Dot is presently being piloted successful Arizona, and erstwhile rolled retired much wide is expected to fulfill cheaper deliveries, pinch DoorDash ensuring its quality unit that nan robot will complement, alternatively than switch them.

With afloat autonomous exertion still successful its infancy, lower-risk hyper-local deliveries are being explored by a number of nutrient transportation companies that person traditionally relied connected gig workers to fulfill orders. At nan opening of this year, GrubHub partnered pinch nan autonomous robot transportation institution Avride to standard up nan latter’s existing robot transportation offering connected assemblage campuses including nan Ohio State University.