Level 4 autonomous sidewalk delivery robot by Serve Robotics with 48-mile range, 15-gallon insulated cargo compartment, and NVIDIA Jetson Orin compute for last-mile food and retail delivery.
Primary use case: Level 4 autonomous last-mile sidewalk food and retail delivery
Weight
54 kg
Weight
54 kg
Locomotion
wheeled
Max Speed
17.7 km/h
Availability
available
Primary Use Case
Level 4 autonomous last-mile sidewalk food and retail delivery
Serve Robotics announced a partnership with Grubhub to deploy its autonomous sidewalk delivery robots in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, Va., with service from over 100 merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles. The company also launched in Washington, D.C. and San Jose through a DoorDash partnership, unveiled its first microdepot in Miami, and previewed Beacon, a countertop product for restaurant-robot connectivity. Serve reported $3.2 million in Q2 2026 revenue, a 404% year-over-year increase, while also providing an update on its acquisition of Diligent Robotics and Moxie 2.0.
Serve Robotics announced a new partnership with Grubhub, adding it as the third major delivery platform alongside Uber Eats and DoorDash, with initial service in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, Virginia. Simultaneously, Diligent Robotics began rolling out its Moxi 2.0 hospital robot across the US with deployments at Endeavor Health Edward Hospital, Providence Saint John's Health Center, and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, featuring 10x computing capacity and 10-15x faster perception processing.
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