Yandex has agreed to partner with the American food delivery service Grubhub. Yandex's six-wheeled robots will deliver food to college and university campuses in the United States, according to a press release received by N + 1.
Yandex.The rover was officially unveiled in 2019. This is a six-wheeled robot with a cargo compartment, similar to similar projects of Starship Technologies and Amazon . Initially, Yandex.Rover started working on the territory of the company and delivered documents, but then it began to be used for commercial services: he started with the delivery of mail to Skolkovo, and one of the last works of the rover is the delivery of food to the residents of the city of Murino.
Yandex robots mainly work in Russia, but in the spring the company announced that rovers will soon begin delivering parcels in the United States, the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well as in Israel and South Korea. Now it has become known that rovers in the United States will be engaged in delivery at several points at once.
Yandex has signed a cooperation agreement with the American food delivery service Grubhub, which serves 250 campuses in the United States. As part of this cooperation, "dozens of Rovers" will appear on several campuses and will deliver food to students and teachers. One of the advantages of rovers over car delivery is that there are usually a lot of pedestrian paths on campuses, so robots will be able to bring orders to places where it is impossible to get by car.
Food delivery on campuses is a popular starting point for testing unmanned technologies. Alphabet Holding acted in a similar way, launching the delivery of burritos to students of the Polytechnic University of Virginia with the help of its hybrid drones.
Nikolai Vorontsov