{"id":290745,"date":"2017-01-19T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T10:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/robots-will-start-delivering-food-to-doorsteps-in-silicon-valley-and-washington-d-c\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T10:35:02","slug":"robots-will-start-delivering-food-to-doorsteps-in-silicon-valley-and-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/robots-will-start-delivering-food-to-doorsteps-in-silicon-valley-and-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots Will Start Delivering Food to Doorsteps in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p id=\"UkoE96\">Starting today, residents and businesses in Redwood City, Calif., and Washington, D.C., can get food delivered right to their doors \u2014 via robot.<\/p>\n<p id=\"JoiBLE\">Starship Technologies, an Estonia-based startup created by two Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, will put its autonomous ground-delivery robots to work delivering food with Postmates in Washington, D.C., and DoorDash in Redwood City, Calif.<\/p>\n<p id=\"wbf3M4\">The six-wheeled robots are a little under two feet tall, weigh about 40 pounds empty and travel four miles per hour \u2014 walking speed. The idea is that one day soon these autonomous rovers will share sidewalk space with pedestrians on their own, but for now they\u2019ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2016\/10\/16\/13300218\/snl-skit-honda-humanoid-robot-demo\" target=\"_blank\">accompanied by handlers<\/a> \u2014 people walking alongside each robot as it makes its deliveries. The handlers will take notes on how well Starship\u2019s robots perform and intervene if something goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p id=\"67EXql\">Each rover works like a delivery person: It goes to the restaurant to get loaded up (with its handler in tow), delivers to the address and then goes to the next restaurant to do it again. Neither Postmates nor DoorDash will charge extra for the robot experience. And Postmates lets customers opt out if robotic delivery isn\u2019t their bag; DoorDash doesn\u2019t give an option. The robots are expected to make around 10 deliveries a day.<\/p>\n<p id=\"KfnDQw\">Starship announced it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starship.xyz\/starship-technologies-secures-17-2-e16-5-million-seed-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">received $17.2 million in seed funding<\/a> last week, backed by Daimler AG, Shasta Ventures, Matrix Partners and others. Its robots have made deliveries in more than 40&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/robots-will-start-delivering-food-to-doorsteps-in-silicon-valley-and-washington-d-c\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting today, residents and businesses in Redwood City, Calif., and Washington, D.C., can get food delivered right to their doors \u2014 via robot. Starship Technologies, an Estonia-based startup created by two Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, will put its autonomous ground-delivery robots to work delivering food with Postmates in Washington, D.C., and DoorDash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}