It started with pizzas and Walmart groceries delivered in a self-driving car from Ford. Now robot-driven food is catching on with even more new companies and apps. GM’s Cruise is working with food delivery service DoorDash to bring your meal from a r…
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Segway-Ninebot to show off new e-scooter, delivery robot
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For anyone with enough open space to race against your friends, Segway-Ninebot has the product for you.
On Thursday, the electric personal vehicle company known for its e-scooters used in share programs around the world unveiled a series of new machines to get around — or at least play around with.
The line of “last-mile” transportation devices will be on view next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. E-Skates and a GoKart are some of the products that will be available to buy later this year after the show. A new electric scooter model and a delivery robot will be introduced for the first time. Read more…
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Nuro deploys autonomous delivery cars without safety drivers
A few months after Nuro deployed self-driving cars to deliver groceries in partnership with Kroger, the autonomous delivery startup is deploying its custom delivery bots. Up until now, Nuro was relying on Prius vehicles and safety drivers. Now, its delivery service in partnership with Kroger will be completely driverless and without a safety driver on board. Nuro has been […]
View More Nuro deploys autonomous delivery cars without safety driversFarmstead is an ambitious grocery delivery startup with plans to defeat Instacart
The Y Combinator graduate has raised $2.2 million for its AI-powered Bay Area grocery delivery service.
View More Farmstead is an ambitious grocery delivery startup with plans to defeat InstacartPrime members ordered 2 billion products for one-day or faster delivery this year
In Amazon’s year-end wrap-up released on Monday, the retailer offered details about its best-selling products of 2018, as well as a few new metrics related to its delivery business. The company said that Prime members worldwide this year ordered more than 2 billion products for one-day or faster delivery – the first time it’s shared […]
View More Prime members ordered 2 billion products for one-day or faster delivery this yearIn pouring rain, self-driving delivery vans show off autonomous skills
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A little rain didn’t dampen ThorDrive, a self-driving car platform based in Seoul, from launching its self-driving delivery service.
Starting Thursday, driverless vans will drop off purchases from a hardware store in Silicon Valley — no human driver steering, accelerating, or braking required.
In a demo ride Thursday in the pouring rain, a small Ford van with ThorDrive branding and four Velodyne LiDAR sensors that use light to measure distance between objects, sensors, and cameras drove some passengers around downtown Palo Alto in the heart of Silicon Valley.
ThorDrive outfits its delivery vans with necessary autonomous equipment.
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View More In pouring rain, self-driving delivery vans show off autonomous skillsAmazon closes its restaurant delivery service in London
Amazon is shutting down its two-year-old restaurant delivery service in London, according to a report by the Evening Standard, which an Amazon spokesperson confirmed. Customers were sent emails which informed them of the change, saying they would no longer be able to order from Amazon Restaurants UK after Monday, December 3rd, the report said. The […]
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You can now order from UberEats and expense it to your company in the app
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You’ve just flown in for a conference. It’s late. You order a car to the hotel and realize you haven’t had dinner yet. The hunt for something to eat is on.
More and more business travelers are firing up the UberEats app and ordering food delivery. And as of Thursday, instead of tracking the order and submitting a receipt to get reimbursed for the meal, UberEats has its own business platform, just like Uber for Business for rides. The new product is called — wait for it — UberEats for Business.
It’s the first time two businesses within Uber have come together to form a new product. But it makes sense, with UberEats’ exponential growth in its three years of existence. It’s already in 350 cities and a large portion of its orders are already business expenses. Uber said, based on Concur expenses, UberEats orders for corporate meals has gone up a whopping 700 percent since 2017. Read more…
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Walmart partners with delivery logistics platform Bringg on last-mile grocery delivery
Walmart announced on Wednesday a new last-mile delivery pilot program, called Spark Delivery, which focuses on fulfilling customers’ online grocery orders. The retailer is working with delivery logistics platform Bringg, a company that offers an Uber-like or Amazon-like level of visibility to retailers’ delivery operations. Also similar to Uber, Walmart’s Spark delivery program relies on […]
View More Walmart partners with delivery logistics platform Bringg on last-mile grocery deliveryAnother autonomous delivery service is here to drop off fresh groceries
In some parts of Silicon Valley, grocery shopping just got a lot easier.
AutoX, the autonomous vehicle startup known for using low-cost, high-resolution cameras for its self-driving vehicle system instead of more common lidar sensors, launched a pilo…
Both Amazon and Walmart announce expanded grocery delivery operations
Amazon and Walmart’s rivalry continues today with two dueling announcements related to their respective grocery delivery expansions. This morning, Amazon said it’s bringing grocery delivery via Whole Foods to several new markets in New York and Florida, including New York City and Miami, among others. Meanwhile, Walmart today is expanding grocery delivery in partnership with […]
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