Uber Eats will use sidewalk robots from Oakland-based Cartken to make food deliveries in Miami. It will be the first major deployment beyond a college campus.
Uber is expanding its use of autonomous delivery vehicles with the announcement that it will soon deploy sidewalk robots developed in Miami, Florida. The six-wheeled delivery robots will come from Cartken, an Oakland-based AI company founded by a team of ex-Google engineers known mostly for deploying its vehicles on college campuses.
Cartken’s robots are electric, with a trunk that can fit almost two dozen pounds of cargo, and has a number of embedded cameras that can be used to identify obstacles and help guide it to its destination. Cartken’s robots are manufactured by auto supplier Magna. The robots have a delivery radius of several miles but can only travel at a speed slightly slower than walking, which is obviously slower than a delivery by a human on a bike or in a car.
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