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Dot

Name: Dot
Brand: DoorDash

Dot is DoorDash's own four-wheeled delivery robot. It drives itself on roads, bike lanes and sidewalks to carry food and small packages. TechCrunch, 30 Sept 2025

Stage 1 of 5

Demo only

Which rule placed it

Evidence: No customer evidence yet
Human help: None reported
Last milestone: 30 Sept 2026

01Can I get it?

Not yet

Where it works today: Phoenix area, Arizona (testing with early partners announced in September 2025). TechCrunch, 30 Sept 2025
Published price: No published price in our sources.
Human help: DoorDash says Dot cannot be driven remotely. If it gets stuck it pulls over and waits, and in serious cases a field worker is sent to it. TechCrunch, 30 Sept 2025

02Track record

What has actually happened

Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.

30 Sept 2026
Update
DoorDash's ordering software was assigning orders both to human couriers and to Dot, DroneXL reported.
DroneXL, 30 Sept 2026
30 Sept 2025
Unveiled
DoorDash showed Dot, a four-wheeled robot less than five feet tall and three feet wide.
TechCrunch, 30 Sept 2025Company-reported
30 Sept 2025
Update
DoorDash said it was already testing Dot with early partners in the Phoenix area.
TechCrunch, 30 Sept 2025Company-reported

03Promised vs delivered

What the maker said, and when

Dated targets the maker set in public, against what has happened since.

Said30 Sept 2025
Available across the Phoenix area by end of 2025
DoorDash said it planned to make Dot available to the Phoenix area's 1.6 million residents by the end of 2025. TechCrunch, 30 Sept 2025
Still pending
We found no source saying whether Dot reached the whole Phoenix area. DroneXL said in September 2026 that Dot was being given orders.

04Safety and incidents

What has gone wrong

No crashes, recalls or regulator reports in our sources. That is not proof none happened; we add them when a regulator or trusted outlet reports one.

How we placed it

The rule, not an opinion

Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.

5
Regulator-cleared or mass market
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
4
Paying customers
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
3
Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
2
Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
1
Demo onlyThis robot
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.
No pre-order, pilot, paying customer or clearance is on record yet.

What we couldn't confirm. We could not find Dot's 2026 cities or fleet size. Separately, DoorDash got an FAA Part 135 air carrier certificate on 29 July 2026 for its own drone service, DoorDash Air, with pilot deliveries planned in Northern California.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “Dot (DoorDash): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/doordash-dot. Checked 19 October 2026.