DoorDash launches autonomous delivery robot known as Dot.
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Your DoorDash deliverer may quickly look a bit completely different.
DoorDash on Tuesday introduced a robot, referred to as Dot, that navigates busy streets, parking heaps and sidewalks to carry clients their meals.
Dot marks DoorDash’s first official standalone push into autonomous car technology. The firm beforehand tested drone delivery and partnered with Sam Altman-backed startup Coco Robotics for sidewalk delivery.
“The scale and complexity of the business demands something like autonomy, and there isn’t anything out there that fits our use case,” DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang advised CNBC.
Tang, who leads the DoorDash Labs automation and robotics unit, mentioned Dot is an answer to more and more advanced deliveries, and makes an attempt to open the technology to native retailers. The firm mentioned the robot can attain as much as 20 miles per hour and carry as much as six pizza bins, or 30 kilos of things.
Autonomous delivery is an rising pattern. Last week. Uber introduced a meals delivery partnership with Israeli drone startup Flytrex, and beforehand delivered meals utilizing self-driving Waymo cars.
DoorDash has been testing its robot in Phoenix, with plans to later increase to different metropolitan areas. Dot is at present open to retailers in the Phoenix space by means of DoorDash’s new autonomous delivery platform that additionally contains drone delivery the place out there.
Dot is provided with eight cameras and three lidar sensors to navigate highway eventualities like crowded parking heaps, blocked bike lanes and busy streets. It additionally contains an inner digicam to make sure meals high quality.
DoorDash additionally introduced a wise scale function that weighs order and detects any potential lacking objects. The firm mentioned its inner knowledge means that the check product has slashed lacking merchandise complaints by as much as 30%.
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