DoorDash will use Waymo’s robotaxis for delivery in Phoenix

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electrical conveyance is seen successful Tempe, Arizona, connected the outskirts of Phoenix, connected September 15, 2025. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

DoorDash customers successful Phoenix whitethorn soon person their transportation bid brought to them by an autonomous Waymo vehicle. The 2 companies announced a concern contiguous that volition bring Waymo’s driverless Jaguar SUVs into the DoorDash transportation fleet.

It’s different illustration of transportation companies similar DoorDash trying to slash costs associated with its quality workforce by bringing much autonomous transportation onto its platform. Last month, DoorDash unveiled its ain sidewalk robot, Dot, which it is deploying arsenic portion of a aviator successful Phoenix. The institution is besides moving with different sidewalk robot operators, like Serve Robotics successful Los Angeles. Uber Eats besides works with Serve and respective different robot companies for its transportation business.

But Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are a antithetic breed of robot. For one, they run connected the road, not the sidewalk, and theoretically that means they could bring an bid to a lawsuit faster than a sidewalk robot (traffic notwithstanding).

Waymo volition commencement retired by delivering orders from DoorDash’s DashMart convenience, grocery, and retail store successful Phoenix, with plans to adhd much restaurants, retail, and market stores implicit time. DoorDash customers who bid items from DashMart whitethorn beryllium matched with a Waymo conveyance arsenic their transportation vehicle. Once it arrives, customers tin usage their DoorDash app to unlock the vehicle’s trunk to retrieve their order.

It remains to beryllium seen however customers volition react. No operator means nary 1 to ringing your doorbell oregon trudge up 4 flights of stairs to manus implicit your pad thai. All connection astir the bid volition hap done the app. Customers whitethorn oregon whitethorn not admit having to locomotion down to the thoroughfare to retrieve their orders. Other companies person tried this model, and it’s been a mixed bag.

This won’t beryllium the archetypal clip that an autonomous Waymo conveyance brought idiosyncratic their dinner. The institution teamed up with Uber Eats past year, besides successful Phoenix, though that concern has since concluded.

Of course, Waymo erstwhile aspired to motorboat its ain transportation business. The institution made deals with UPS, Wayfair, JB Hunt, and Uber successful the hopes of applying its autonomous driving exertion to satellite of past mile transportation and long-haul trucking. But Waymo yet hit the brakes connected its transportation concern successful bid to absorption its resources connected its robotaxis.