Uber Eats begins providing autonomous meals deliveries in Fairfax, Virginia

Beginning immediately, Uber Eats clients in Fairfax, Virginia can get their subsequent meal delivered by a robotic. In an enlargement of the corporate’s , Uber has begun providing automated deliveries within the metropolis’s Mosaic District. With immediately’s announcement, a choose variety of the greater than 40 eating places within the space have begun transporting their meals aboard Cartken’s six-wheeled robots. Among the many eating places collaborating within the pilot embody Our Mother Eugenia, Pupatella and RASA.

Uber has been testing autonomous supply robots in a handful of markets all through the US. Final Could, the corporate launched in Los Angeles with the assistance of Motional and Serve Robotics. Extra not too long ago, Uber signed a to make use of the corporate’s vans for autonomous deliveries in California and Texas. Cartken, it needs to be famous, additionally works with Grubhub to ship meals on . The agency’s robotic makes use of , alongside cameras and sensors, to navigate streets and sidewalks. They will journey at as much as six miles per hour and carry about two full paper grocery baggage of cargo to their vacation spot.