Uber and Avride Are Bringing Delivery Robots and Autonomous Vehicles to City Streets
Austin, Texas, is known for many things: great music, tasty barbecue, bats under bridges. And soon, Uber Eats meals delivered by sidewalk robots. Uber and Austin-based robot and autonomous vehicle manufacturer Avride announced a multiyear partnership for delivery...
McDonald’s Rolls Out Cash Accepting Kiosks, as Labor Costs Rise
McDonald’s is launching new digital kiosks that accept cash and dispense change. The move follows the chainwide rollout of self-order kiosks in 2020, which accepted credit card payments and required cash customers to go to the counter. “These changes allow franchisees...
Nuro Shifts Focus from Delivery Robots to Licensing its Autonomous Tech
Nuro is making a pivot from developing delivery robots to licensing out its advanced, autonomous tech. The company is known for its self-driving delivery robots that drive on public roads, setting itself apart from the smaller, sidewalk delivery robots that are...
Chipotle Employs a Robot Called Autocado
Chipotle may have lost its CEO to Starbucks but it has something the coffee giant doesn’t: an avocado-processing robot. It announced this week that its Autocado robot, which can cut, core, and peel avocados before they are hand-mashed into guacamole, is being...
Dlivrd Debuts a Driver App and Takes Ownership of Its Tech Stack
Last week, Dlivrd, a catering-delivery company specializing in last-mile orders, launched its first driver app. But CEO Chris Heffernan isn’t doing cartwheels about the novelty of it. “I mean it’s cool and all,” he said in an interview. But where he is up on his hands...
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