Doordash Introduces A Cute Delivery Robot Named Dot

At nan Dash Forward keynote, DoorDash has unveiled a tiny electrical transportation robot named Dot that was designed specifically for speedy vicinity trips. Dot is astir one-tenth nan size of a car, tin move up to 20 mph and tin navigate not conscionable roads, but besides motorcycle lanes and sidewalks. It's mini capable to fresh done doorways and driveways and tin thief section businesses meet request from group who for illustration to shop from nan comfortableness of their ain homes. The robot was developed in-house by DoorDash Labs to merge pinch nan company's caller Autonomous Delivery Platform, an AI dispatcher that matches orders pinch nan champion transportation method.

"You don’t ever request a full-sized car to present a conduit of toothpaste aliases battalion of diapers," said Stanley Tang, nan caput of DoorDash Labs. "That’s nan penetration down Dot." To commencement with, nan institution is launching an early entree programme for Dot successful Tempe and Mesa, Arizona. DoorDash said it's nan opening of Dot's commercialized deployment and that nan robot will make its measurement to caller markets successful nan future.

The institution has assured Dashers nan Dot will not switch them. Human dashers will still grip nan "vast majority" of its deliveries, and Dot is expected to let them to prime up nan much precocious worth ones while it fills successful nan gaps for section trips that don't salary arsenic much. DoorDash said that it needed to conjure up much "innovative ways to support gait pinch demand" to support much section businesses and arsenic it expands to caller regions. It besides antecedently teamed up pinch Coco Robotics to connection sidewalk robot deliveries successful LA and Chicago, and it offers drone deliveries successful Christiansburg, Virginia and Frisco, Texas.