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Serve Robotics wants to democratize sidewalk delivery robots
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With its new developer platform, the sidewalk robot company lets small businesses, indie developers, and AI agents summon its 2,000-robot fleet without paying delivery app markups.
With its new developer platform, the sidewalk robot company lets small businesses, indie developers, and AI agents summon its 2,000-robot fleet without paying delivery app markups.
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Serve Robotics is opening up its platform to make its autonomous last-mile delivery robots available to anyone who wants to use them. The company is launching a new AV Delivery Developer Portal, enabling third-party software engineers, independent businesses, and even autonomous AI agents to access its fleet of 2,000 sidewalk robots.
With this new capability, third-party developers and interested small businesses can use Serve’s software tools to dispatch robots directly without relying on major food delivery companies, like Uber Eats. Now, anyone who lives in one of the 150 neighborhoods where the company currently operates can employ a sidewalk robot for deliveries.
Serve, which was spun out of the app-based delivery company Postmates in 2021, has been making Uber Eats deliveries in Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, and dozens of other cities for several years now, using robots that look like autonomous shopping carts. Serve says its delivery robots can be a safer alternative to cars and help reduce traffic congestion since they operate mainly on sidewalks. Since the robots have a top speed of around 6 mph, there’s little to no risk to pedestrians.