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Uber Eats and Starship began robot food deliveries in Leeds, England.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported · Sets Starship delivery robot's stage
What the source says
“Uber Eats and Starship Technologies launch robot deliveries in Leeds in time for festive feasting”
What it means
Starship delivery robot, from Starship Technologies, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on Starship delivery robot
- Starship said it had passed 10 million deliveries, with a fleet of more than 3,000 robots.
- Uber Eats agreed to use Starship robots for food deliveries in the UK, starting in Leeds and Sheffield.
- Starship raised $50 million and said it had made more than 9 million deliveries with over 2,700 robots in seven countries.
- Starship raised $90 million. Its robots were working in about 80 neighbourhoods and campuses in the US and Europe.