Avride launches sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats in Jersey City
Uber Eats customers in Jersey City can now have their orders delivered by one of Avride’s autonomous sidewalk delivery robots.
The launch, which kicked off this week in New Jersey, is Uber’s latest foray into autonomous vehicles and represents an expanding relationship with Avride. The ride-hail and delivery giant deploys AVs on its app in 11 cities with six partners, including Cartken, Coco, Nuro, and Serve Robotics; it’s also gearing up to introduce Waymo’s robotaxis to its app in Austin and Atlanta in early 2025.
Uber initially announced its partnership with Avride to bring both the company’s delivery bots and its autonomous vehicles to the Uber platform in October 2024. Since then the two have launched robotic deliveries in Austin and Dallas.
They also plan to launch Avride’s self-driving cars in Dallas this year, which would be Avride’s first robotaxi deployment in the U.S. Avride is a spinout from Yandex, the Russian technology company that devolved its businesses last year as a result of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The startup also recently announced a tie-up with Grubhub to bring bots to university campuses across the U.S., starting with 100 robots at Ohio State University.