"DoorDash Inc. is partnering with sidewalk-robot developer Serve Robotics Inc. for autonomous deliveries across the US, adding to an array of methods the company is exploring to complement human couriers. Serve's robots will fulfill some DoorDash orders through a multiyear partnership, starting in Los Angeles, the companies said Thursday in a statement shared with Bloomberg News. Serve, which also counts DoorDash rival Uber Technologies Inc. as a partner, has completed tens of thousands of deliveries in five US cities: LA, Miami, Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta."
"Neither partnerships is exclusive, meaning Serve can optimize its robots' time by taking orders from both DoorDash and Uber, similar to how delivery workers toggle between multiple apps to find better-paying or nearby gigs. Shares of Serve jumped as much as 15% after markets opened in New York, touching their highest intraday level in eight months."
"DoorDash, the leading US app for food deliveries, has articulated a vision of using both human couriers and autonomous transportation. In April, it expanded its partnership with another sidewalk robot company, Coco Robotics, for orders in LA and Chicago. And last week it unveiled its own delivery robot developed in-house, which it said is built for suburban markets where it can deliver bigger orders, at faster speeds and across longer distances on both sidewalks and roads."
DoorDash partnered with Serve Robotics for multiyear autonomous sidewalk-robot deliveries, beginning in Los Angeles. Serve has completed tens of thousands of deliveries across five U.S. cities and also partners with Uber; the partnerships are nonexclusive. Serve's shares rose after the market reaction. DoorDash pursues a mixed model of human couriers and autonomy, expanded its Coco Robotics partnership for LA and Chicago, and unveiled an in-house robot aimed at suburban markets for larger, faster, longer-distance deliveries on sidewalks and roads. Humans will handle complex, multi-stop, higher-paying orders while sidewalk robots focus on smaller, short-distance urban dispatches.
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