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DoorDash starts robot deliveries in LA and Chicago
DoorDash has started robot deliveries in Los Angeles and Chicago. This is a partnership with the robotics firm Coco.
Coco robots have been making deliveries for DoorDash in Helsinki since late last year through its international sub-brand Wolt. Harrison Shih, Senior Director of DoorDash Labs, says that “not every delivery needs a two-ton car just to deliver two chicken sandwiches.” This is part of a larger push by DoorDash towards what it calls “multimodal” deliveries, which combines human workers, drones and autonomous robots to “meet increasing demand while lowering costs and emissions.” To that end, the company has partnered with Wing to provide drone deliveries in the US and Australia.
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