There’s a new sidewalk-savvy robot in the robot world, and it’s delivering coffee, grub and a taste of fun.
The bot is garnering interest for Oakland, California startup Cartken. The company, founded in 2019, has rapidly deployed robots for a handful of customer applications, including for Starbucks and Grubhub deliveries.
Cartken CEO Chris Bersch says that he and co-founders Jonas Witt, Jake Stelman and Anjali Jindal Naik got excited about the prospect for robots because of the technology’s readiness and affordability. The four Google alumni decided the timing was right to take the leap to start a company together. [Read more…] about Cartken rolls out Nvidia chip-based delivery robots-as-a-service