Uber Eats, tests for food deliveries with robots begin

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The technological option provides

a yellow robot from Serve Robotics

, startup born as a spinoff of Uber itself, which looks like a cooler with wheels and which is equipped with headlights that resemble eyes. The deliveries will be made independently, but will be remotely supervised by a human operator.

The long distance alternative, which I will be testing in Santa Monica, also California, will be operated by

berline autonome

of Hyundai with technology provided by the company Motional (owned by the same Korean carmaker). Orders delivered with the four wheels will be placed in a thermal container on the back seat of the car, where customers can collect them.

According to Noah Zych, who heads Uber’s autonomous mobility and delivery department, the use of robots is not destined to displace the work of human messengers in a short time: in the near future, he said, the automated ones will be only “a number. very, very small of our deliveries. “

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