Sidewalk robots can be found to Uber Eats customers in Santa Monica and West Hollywood.
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Uber Applied sciences on Monday mentioned it launched pilot meals supply companies with autonomous autos in two California cities, and mentioned it was including electrical automobile charging stations into its international driver app.
The bulletins are a part of Uber’s annual product occasion the place the ride-hail and meals supply firm showcases the most recent updates to its app.
Uber introduced one meals supply service utilizing autonomous vehicles, and a separate pilot utilizing sidewalk robots. Each companies can be found to Uber Eats customers in Santa Monica and West Hollywood in California, and customers could have the power to decide out of the packages.
The autonomous automobile pilot is in collaboration with Motional, the self-driving three way partnership of Hyundai Motor and Aptiv, and was initially introduced in December. It launched on Monday, Uber and Motional mentioned.
Uber mentioned the sidewalk robots are offered by Serve Robotics, a spin-off of supply firm Postmates, which Uber acquired in 2020.
The autos in each companies are actively monitored by human operators, Uber mentioned, including that “it is going to be a while earlier than this know-how is operated at scale.”
Self-driving corporations have repeatedly pushed out timelines to offer really driverless journeys at scale, with only some restricted absolutely autonomous packages obtainable throughout the US.
Uber on Monday additionally mentioned it was launching a map of electrical automobile charging stations in its driver app within the US this summer season, and later worldwide, in an effort to advertise drivers switching to a battery-powered automobile.
Uber, which goals to have solely electrical autos on its platform in the USA, Canada and Europe by 2030, mentioned charging was certainly one of drivers’ largest obstacles to switching to EVs.
The corporate additionally mentioned it was launching an choice this summer season to lease get together and coach buses, and passenger vans by its US app in collaboration with rental service US Coachways.
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