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Amazon reportedly preparing to test humanoid robots for package deliveries

June 5, 2025 by Mai Tao

The world’s largest online retailer, Amazon, is exploring the use of humanoid robots to automate package deliveries, a move that could significantly reshape its fulfillment and delivery network.

According to reports, the e-commerce giant is in the process of testing these advanced robots for handling tasks currently performed by human workers.

The story, which appears to have been first reported by the subscription-based tech publication The Information, has been widely circulated by other news outlets. [Read more…] about Amazon reportedly preparing to test humanoid robots for package deliveries

Filed Under: Humanoids, News Tagged With: amazon, automation, delivery robots, e-commerce, future of work, humanoid robots, logistics, package delivery, robotics, the information

7-Eleven Japan trials autonomous delivery robots built by Suzuki and robotics startup Lomby

May 20, 2025 by Sam Francis

7-Eleven stores in Japan are trialling an autonomous delivery robot developed through a collaboration between automotive giant Suzuki and Tokyo-based robotics venture Lomby.

This initiative marks a significant step in addressing Japan’s growing labor shortage and exploring the potential of last-mile delivery automation in urban environments.

Convenience store giant 7-Eleven Japan has commenced real-world testing of autonomous delivery robots in a suburb of Tokyo. [Read more…] about 7-Eleven Japan trials autonomous delivery robots built by Suzuki and robotics startup Lomby

Filed Under: Logistics, News Tagged With: 7-eleven, automation, Autonomous robots, convenience store, delivery robots, japan, last-mile delivery, lomby, robotics, suzuki

Delivery robot market set to grow amid tech innovation and last-mile logistics demand

May 14, 2025 by Mai Tao

The global delivery robot market is poised for steady growth through 2032, according to new research by Market Research Intellect.

Driven by rapid advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and navigation systems, delivery robots are gaining ground in logistics, retail, food delivery, and healthcare sectors.

These autonomous systems are emerging as a cost-effective and efficient solution for last-mile delivery challenges, particularly in urban environments. [Read more…] about Delivery robot market set to grow amid tech innovation and last-mile logistics demand

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: AI logistics technology, autonomous delivery systems, contactless delivery trends, delivery robot market forecast, delivery robots, emerging markets robotics, green delivery solutions, labor shortage automation, last-mile delivery automation, robotics in logistics

Serve Robotics unveils pricing of $40 million public offering and listing on Nasdaq

May 13, 2024 by Mark Allinson

Serve Robotics, a startup providing autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, has unveiled the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $4.00 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds of $40 million, prior to deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses.

The offering includes the participation of one of Serve’s largest stockholders and strategic partners, Postmates, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber Technologies.

In addition, Serve has granted Aegis Capital, a 45-day option to purchase up to 1,500,000 additional shares of common stock, equal to 15 percent of the number of shares sold in the offering solely to cover over-allotments, if any. [Read more…] about Serve Robotics unveils pricing of $40 million public offering and listing on Nasdaq

Filed Under: Business, News Tagged With: autononomous, capital markets, delivery robots, nasdaq, serve robotics

Caterpillar acquires delivery robot maker Marble

June 24, 2020 by Sam Francis

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Caterpillar, the manufacturer of large-scale equipment for sectors such as construction, mining and transportation, has agreed to acquire Marble, a startup company that makes delivery robots.

According to a report on construction news website KHL.com, Caterpillar is looking to build on its work in autonomous mining vehicles, where it’s famous for using gigantic driverless dump trucks (see infographic below).

Innovations and developments gained through the Marble acquisition could help Caterpillar to supply a new generation of technology to its other markets. [Read more…] about Caterpillar acquires delivery robot maker Marble

Filed Under: Logistics, News Tagged With: autonomy, caterpillar, company, construction, delivery, delivery robots, generation, marble, robot, robots

Starship and Sodexo send more delivery robots to university

March 25, 2019 by Sam Francis

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Starship Technologies and Sodexo have launched a robot food delivery service at Northern Arizona University in partnership with several restaurants

It’s something your mom always told you – eat your breakfast – and now college students are starting to do just that, thanks to Starship robots and Sodexo.

Research has shown that up to 88 percent of college students skip breakfast, primarily because of lack of time, but that number is starting to turn around when delivery robots arrive on campus.

Starting today, students at Northern Arizona University’s Flagstaff campus will have the convenience of receiving food delivered by robot.  [Read more…] about Starship and Sodexo send more delivery robots to university

Filed Under: Logistics, News Tagged With: delivery robots, northern arizona university, sodexo, starship technologies

Delivery robots market projected to grow at 20 percent a year

March 11, 2019 by David Edwards

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The delivery robots market is expected to grow from $11.9 billion in 2018 to $34 billion by 2024, at an annual growth rate of 19.15 percent, according to ReportLinker.

Much of the demand will come from the e-commerce sector, according to the researcher.

There are numerous giant online retailers in the global market, along with the emerging ones.  [Read more…] about Delivery robots market projected to grow at 20 percent a year

Filed Under: Features, Logistics Tagged With: delivery robots, reportlinker

Top 20 autonomous delivery robots: Ready to take over the streets

January 25, 2019 by Sam Francis

Despite some occasional antipathy towards them, autonomous delivery robots are gaining ground in urban landscapes. 

While some local authorities are unsure about allowing machines to roam free on city streets, most people probably accept that it’s only a matter of time before regulations accommodate the new technology.

Universities, meanwhile, as well as other organizations such as hotels, airports and large companies with extensive grounds of their own, have the opportunity to allow relatively large numbers of these autonomous mobile robots to deliver such things as snacks and maybe books, documents, and other items to students, guests and staff.  [Read more…] about Top 20 autonomous delivery robots: Ready to take over the streets

Filed Under: Features, Logistics Tagged With: aethon, amazon, anybotics, boxbot, cainiao, cleveron, delivery robots, dispatch, effidence, eliport, kiwi, marble robot, nuro, postmates, robby technologies, robomart, savioke, segway, starship technologies, teleretail, udelv

Solving the tricky last-mile: Delivery robots to rescue e-commerce

January 25, 2019 by Sam Francis

Logistics companies refer to it as the “last mile” – the final stage of dispatch, when the item goes from the local depot to the customer’s address.

The last mile is often the most complex part of the journey, and probably the least cost-effective, for obvious reasons:

  • the delivery vehicles are large and yet the parcels are small, making each delivery relatively expensive; and
  • the vehicles often have to traverse narrow, winding streets, covering much less ground using the same amount of petrol as when traveling much longer distances on a typical motorway, for example.

These factors, and many other difficulties, are why a lot of companies have been researching and developing a wide variety of interesting solutions for that tricky last mile. And with e-commerce growing so fast, the solutions can’t come fast enough.

[Read more…] about Solving the tricky last-mile: Delivery robots to rescue e-commerce

Filed Under: Features, Logistics Tagged With: delivery robots, mordor intelligence

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