
A Serve sidewalk robot making a delivery in Chicago. | Source: Serve Robotics Serve Robotics Inc., a developer of sidewalk delivery robots, this week announced a partnership with Grubhub, a subsidiary of Wonder. Serve will now be offering robotic deliveries on the Grubhub marketplace starting in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, Va. The company‘s services will be available from more than 100 participating Grubhub merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles, with additional resta
Serve Robotics, a developer of sidewalk delivery robots, has announced a partnership with Grubhub to offer robotic deliveries in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, Virginia through more than 100 participating merchants. The company is expanding its operations into new markets and launching new products including microdepots for robot staging and maintenance, a countertop device called Beacon that connects restaurants to robots, and an advertising product that integrates conversational AI into robot deliveries. Serve's revenue grew significantly year-over-year, with advertising and recurring revenue making up a substantial portion of its earnings, though the company faced a setback when its original parent company Uber sold off its remaining stake. The partnership with Grubhub represents continued growth for the autonomous delivery sector as these robots become integrated into established food delivery platforms.

The PUDU MP2000 is designed to simplify autonomous floor-to-floor material transport across warehouses and factories. | Credit: Pudu Robotics With pallet pickup cycles as fast as 20 seconds, Pudu Robotics yesterday unveiled the MP2000, an AI-powered autonomous pallet handler built to tackle high-frequency, heavy-payload transport in crowded manufacturing and logistics hubs. The MP2000 extends the company‘s portfolio of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), enabling autonomous pallet acquisition

FORT Robotics said it is building the trust layer for physical AI. Source: FORT Robotics As robots become more autonomous and enter more spaces with people, the need for a trustworthy safety technology stack has grown. FORT Robotics Inc. today said it is merging with Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. “FORT’s mission is to ‘ensure robots cause no harm,’ and we are dedicated to pioneering and building a shared framework for trust that robot

Loomia’s Smart Skin Tactile Sensing Dev Kit includes both capacitive and force-sensitive resistor sensors. Source: Loomia Sensing “skin” is among the technologies in development around physical AI including humanoid robots. Materials company Uni-Chem Co. this month acquired Loomia Technologies Inc. to enter the market for “electronic skin” for humanoids, as well as the market for interior materials for smart mobility. Flexible electronics maker Loomia previously par
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