Serve Robotics Inc. (NASDAQ:SERV) shares climbed 7.4% in premarket trading on Monday after the autonomous delivery company announced a broader rollout with DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) and a new partnership with Grubhub.
The company is extending its DoorDash collaboration into Washington, DC and San Jose, California, adding two new markets to its existing operations in Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami.
Serve has also entered into a partnership with Wonder Group Inc. and its Grubhub subsidiary to provide autonomous deliveries across Los Angeles, Chicago and Alexandria, Virginia.
Grubhub robot deliveries expand across major cities
Under the new Grubhub arrangement, Serve’s autonomous robots will initially provide deliveries from more than 100 participating merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles.
Additional restaurants are expected to join the service as the programme develops.
In Washington, DC, the DoorDash rollout will initially cover Dupont Circle and sections of downtown. The San Jose expansion is particularly significant for Serve as it represents the company’s first market in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The additional locations broaden Serve’s commercial footprint as it works to increase the number of restaurants and delivery platforms using its autonomous sidewalk robots.
Serve launches first Miami micro depot
Alongside its delivery-platform expansion, Serve announced the opening of its first micro depot in Miami.
The compact operating facility provides a central location for staging, charging, dispatching and maintaining the company’s robots.
Serve said the model requires relatively little infrastructure and can be established quickly in neighbourhoods where delivery demand is particularly high. The approach could help the company scale its fleet more efficiently as it enters additional markets.
Moxi 2.0 begins rollout across U.S. hospitals
Serve also introduced Moxi 2.0, the latest generation of the hospital robot developed by its Diligent Robotics subsidiary.
The upgraded platform has started rolling out to healthcare providers including Endeavor Health Edward Hospital, Providence Saint John’s Health Center and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Moxi 2.0 offers 10 times the onboard computing capacity of the previous generation and is capable of perceiving and interpreting its surroundings as much as 15 times faster.
The improvements are designed to enhance the robot’s ability to operate effectively in complex hospital environments while supporting healthcare workers with routine logistical tasks.
Beacon and Characters broaden Serve’s technology offering
The company also previewed Beacon, a countertop device intended to create a direct connection between restaurants, customers and Serve robots.
The product has been designed to work without requiring restaurants to install additional hardware or make significant changes to their existing operating systems, potentially making it easier for merchants to adopt autonomous delivery.
Serve Advertising, meanwhile, launched a product called Characters that enables brands to create conversational AI personalities for deployment on Serve robots.
The service is debuting with Chomp, a hamburger-wrapped robot developed in collaboration with Grubhub.
The combination of new delivery markets, additional platform partnerships and expanded robotics products highlights Serve’s efforts to build a broader commercial ecosystem around autonomous delivery and service robots.
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