Nuro’s Autonomous Vehicles Deliver Pizzas in California
This page is translated from the original post "Les véhicules autonomes de Nuro livrent des pizzas en Californie" in French.
- 01/12/2021 16:00
This is a new step for autonomous delivery: the Californian startup Nuro will begin delivering to customers of a Californian 7-Eleven supermarket without human intervention.
The residents of this store in Mountain View, California, USA, can order products such as pizzas, chips, drinks, or household items via the “7Now” app. They receive a notification when they can pick up their order from the vehicle’s trunk.
This is the first commercial autonomous delivery service launched in California. It initially begins with one or more modified Toyota Prius vehicles. An operator will monitor the trips from the driver’s seat.
However, Nuro will later switch to its Nuro R2 robots. These robots already deliver in Houston, Texas. They deliver for restaurant chains Chipotle and Domino’s, for supermarkets CVS Pharmacy and Walmart, and for the carrier FedEx.
Nuro was founded in 2016 by two veterans of Google’s autonomous taxi project, which became Waymo. Five years later, it is one of the few companies operating autonomous vehicles without an operator on open roads, and it is also valued at 5 billion dollars.
Read also: How Nuro is Enhancing the Safety of Its Delivery Robots
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