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A DoorDash employee making $400K a year complained about a company-wide initiative requiring that he personally make one delivery a month

DoorDash is making all its employees — even the CEO — work as delivery drivers at least once a month.Noam Galai/Getty Images DoorDash is reinstating its WeDash program. The program requires staff — including the CEO — to work as delivery drivers at least once a month. One employee who said they make $400K a year vented on social media about having to do the program. The delivery service DoorDash is making all its employees — even the CEO — deliver at least once a month, but not… Source link

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Postmates spin-off Serve Robotics raises $13M to grow its sidewalk delivery fleet

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  In May, following Uber’s acquisition of Postmates, the robotics division of Postmates spun out as an independent company called Serve Robotics. At the time, Serve said it would pursue its vision of deploying fleets of sidewalk delivery robots throughout the country,… Source link

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Food delivery rovers roam at the University of Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — If you’re taking a walk on the University of Arizona campus and you might see small, white six-wheeled robots that look like mini ice chests. They are the new food delivery rovers that deliver food from select Student Union restaurants to anyone on campus if they order on the Grubhub app. The rovers, created by the company Yandex Self-Driving Group, launched last week and now students are able to order IQ Fresh, Einstein Bagels, On Deck Deli and Sabor. Anyone on… Source link

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Grubhub, Yandex Bring Robot Delivery to College

Food ordering and delivery platform Grubhub is rolling out its services to the University of Arizona using Yandex Self-Driving Group’s delivery robots — also known as rovers — following a similar launch at Ohio State University in September, according to a press release. The 35,000-plus University of Arizona Wildcats will be able to order from on-campus dining locations — IQ Fresh, Einstein Bros Bagels, On Deck Deli and Sabor — using the Grubhub app. The third-generation robots… Source link

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Russian tech giant Yandex launches its home delivery service for food delivery via messenger robots at the University of Arizona

The Russian tech giant Yandex, in collaboration with Grubhub, has begun offering its food delivery service at the Arizona State University campus, using for the first time in the United States the state-of-the-art robots it has developed for such end, he pointed the signature through a statement. According to the company, known as ‘Russian Google’, the food will be distributed by autonomous vehicles characterized by a more functional design, greater capacity and better performance, in… Source link

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Grubhub Launches Robot Delivery at the University of Arizona

CHICAGO, Nov. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Grubhub, the leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery platform on college campuses, announced today that it’s deploying Yandex Self-Driving Group’s robot delivery technology, also called rovers, on the University of Arizona’s campus. This will be the second campus rolling out this delivery option from Grubhub and Yandex this fall, following Ohio State University.  More than 35,000 Wildcats will be able to order their favorite foods from… Source link

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Delivery Robots are Ready to Take Your Order

By Daniel Stolte, University Communications Nov. 17, 2021 A fleet of rovers capable of navigating campus on their own is the latest addition to the University of Arizona’s portfolio of food delivery options. Chris Richards/University of Arizona Beginning Wednesday, more than 35,000 Wildcats will be able to order their favorite foods from on-campus dining locations – including IQ Fresh, Einstein Bros Bagels, On Deck Deli and Sabor – via… Source link

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Autonomous robot delivery in Dubai

Volume of retail trade down by 0.3% in euro area and by 0.2% in the EUIn September 2021, the seasonally adjusted volume of retail trade decreased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU, compared with August 2021, according to estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In August 2021, the retail trade volume increased by 1.0% in the euro area and by 0.8% in the EU.Source: ec.europa.eu  India: Future Retail’s independent directors urge CCI to… Source link

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Yandex To Bring Autonomous Robot Delivery To Carrefour In Dubai

Russia’s Yandex Self-Driving Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Majid Al Futtaim, operators of the Carrefour banner in the Middle East, to introduce autonomous robot delivery to its stores in Dubai. The partnership will enhance Carrefour’s last-mile delivery capabilities in the region, with a pilot programme set to launch in early 2022. Through the initiative, Carrefour customers in selected neighbourhoods across the United Arab Emirates will be able to receive their… Source link

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