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Uber Eats is launching a delivery service with Cartken’s sidewalk robots in Japan
Uber, Mitsubishi Electric and autonomous robotics startup Cartken are launching a service in Japan using self-driving sidewalk robots.
The companies announced that the service offered through the Uber Eats app will launch in a select part of Tokyo by the end of March. Uber and Cartken, a startup founded in 2019 by former Google engineers behind the short-lived Bookbot, already operate a delivery service together in Fairfax, Virginia and Miami. Shoji Tanaka, the senior general manager of Mitsubishi Electric’s advanced application development center said robot delivery is an an effective countermeasure to the logistics crisis that will become more serious in the future.
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