Staff are loading food into Starship Technology’s six-wheeled robot.
The epidemic poses a serious challenge to industries such as restaurants and leisure, shopping malls and supermarkets, culture and entertainment, and tourism and travel. Instead, business related to artificial intelligence and robotics continues to climb.
Starship Technologies, the world’s leading provider of robotic delivery services, announced that deliveries to campuses and communities worldwide have quadrupled since the beginning of the plague pandemic.
“The past year has seen robotic delivery services move forward several years,” said Ahti Heinla, founder and chief executive officer of Starship Technologies.
“When we launched our robotic service three years ago, we didn’t expect to reach the level we are at today. We completed 1 million deliveries in January 2021, and since then we have exceeded 1.5 million deliveries. The rapid growth has also helped us scale our business so we can offer lower delivery costs.”
The popularity of Starship’s robotics service continues to grow as it gains traction, with the service now covering 15 campuses in 11 states.
Claire Sandman, a student at Bowling Green State University, said, “I had never even heard of robotic delivery before I came here to school, and now I don’t think I can live without it in the future.”
“Starship robots are really convenient and cool. I always brag to my friends at other schools that our school has one. I can get food any time I need it, anywhere I need it. And I think it’s kind of surreal to walk around campus with a robot. The robots save me a lot of time. Now that I’m graduating, I’m going to miss being able to see a robot on campus every day, and I wish I could take one with me!” Sandeman said.
The Starship Technologies food delivery app is available for download on iOS and Android. First, users select their favorite food or drink, then specify a delivery location. They can watch the robot come to them via a map. Once the robot arrives, they receive an alert, which is then unlocked through the app.
Starship operates commercially around the world every day. The company’s zero-emission robots have made more than one and a half million automated deliveries, traveling millions of miles and crossing more than 80,000 intersections each day.
Plague Pushes Society to Embrace Robots
People usually prefer to deal with people in their daily activities. For example, in luxury hotels, guests usually prefer to have people serve as front desk clerks, baggage attendants, doormen, etc. The plague pandemic has overturned this traditional approach.
The reason for this is that, on the one hand, the plague triggered an economic depression, so industries urgently needed to reduce labor costs. On the other hand, people also wanted to avoid exposure as much as possible. For example, food was delivered by robots, rather than by potentially infected people.
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