DoorDash is expanding into sidewalk robot delivery in the US

DoorDash’s planetary limb Wolt has already been experimenting with Coco’s fleet of sidewalk robots successful Helsinki, Finland. Now, DoorDash is linking up with sidewalk robot shaper Coco to expand automated nutrient deliveries to the US. It’s unrecorded successful Los Angeles and Chicago with astir 600 merchants acceptable up to driblet your luncheon and different goods into the bellies of cute small icebox-looking bots.

In a property release, elder manager of DoorDash Labs, Harrison Shih, says the Coco concern is portion of the company’s extremity of becoming a “multi-modal” platform. “Not each transportation needs a 2-ton car conscionable to present 2 chickenhearted sandwiches,” said Shih. 

Besides modular quality operator deliveries and Coco bots, the institution is besides trying drone deliveries with Alphabet’s Wing successful the US and Australia. DoorDash has truthful acold completed implicit 100,000 deliveries worldwide with Coco nether its archetypal aviator phase.

Coco’s robot has already been rolling down the artifact successful Los Angeles with DoorDash rival Uber Eats, which has antecedently experimented with aggregate robot makers like Cartken successful Miami, Florida and Japan, arsenic good arsenic Avride successful Jersey City, New Jersey.

Operating transportation robots isn’t without its difficulties. Companies similar Serve Robotics, which besides works with Uber Eats, person teams to show and assistance their cute small sidewalk couriers if they get stuck, oregon rescue them aft radical vandalize oregon effort to bargain from them.