In an effort to drive customer frequency by lowering costs, aggregators are testing robotic delivery. Uber, for its part, announced Thursday (April 20) that it is expanding its partnership with sidewalk delivery robotics company Cartken to offer autonomous fulfillment in Fairfax, Virginia’s Mosaic District shopping...
Uber Eats and Cartken have partnered to enable food delivery by robots in Miami. The instant delivery firm and the robotics company began operating this service with select merchants Thursday (Dec. 15) and plan to expand it to additional cities in 2023, Uber said in a Thursday press release. ...
As students return to college campuses this fall, food service businesses are finding that their dining habits are finally beginning to look more like they did before the start of the pandemic. For instance, Newport Beach, California-based fast-casual giant Chipotle Mexican Grill, which has more than...
Today in data, Grubhub partners with self-driving robotics company Cartken to offer autonomous deliveries on college campuses. Plus, retailers hope shoppers will tap into unprecedented home equity this summer as an economic recession looms, and Target is launching its own private-label adult beverage line in...
February 22, 2024
As on-demand delivery aggregators look to automation to reduce labor costs, Uber sees the opportunity to roll out autonomous sidewalk robots in dense cities worldwide — but only for certain kinds of orders. In an interview with PYMNTS, Noah Zych, Uber’s global head of autonomous mobility and delivery, spoke to the company’s recent partnership with Mitsubishi […]
September 05, 2022
As students return to college campuses this fall, food service businesses are finding that their dining habits are finally beginning to look more like they did before the start of...
December 15, 2022
Uber Eats and Cartken have partnered to enable food delivery by robots in Miami. The instant delivery firm and the robotics company began operating this service with select merchants Thursday (Dec. 15) and plan to expand it to additional cities in 2023, Uber said in a Thursday press release. “Miami is a thriving Uber Eats market and we are […]
