The funding came from a range of investors, including Uber Technologies, Wavemaker Labs, DX Ventures and 7-Eleven’s corporate venture arm, 7-Ventures.

The CEO of an autonomous delivery company looks at trends for the coming year and predicts increasing technology adoption and company consolidation.

Piestro, which launched a second StartEngine fundraising campaign, has integrated its automated pizza-making system with Kiwibot’s robotic delivery service.

MissionGO and the Nevada Donor Network have teamed up to deliver a kidney, corneas, and other human tissue, setting distance records for drone deliveries.

Volansi said its latest financing, led by Icon Ventures, will enable it to rapidly scale up operations and sales in the U.S. and global emerging markets.

University of Texas at Dallas researchers found that last-mile delivery networks will become more decentralized and the delivery speed of the drones will increase as the technology matures.

Toronto – Tiny Mile, creators of the “Geoffrey” food delivery robot, today announced a partnership with foodora to provide on-demand delivery in Canada. Initial plans are to pilot the delivery robots in Toronto, but the companies said expansion to other Canadian locations is planned. The Geoffrey robot, named after Geoffrey Hinton, an acclaimed computer scientist…

  Nuro.ai, which is working on self-driving vehicles, said today that it has received $940 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund. This marks a major push in the ground delivery space and another move by SoftBank to take leadership in automation. Other investors in Mountain View, Calif.-based Nuro include Greylock Partners and Gaorong Capital. The…

This article was republished with permission from Starship Technologies’ blog. Starship Technologies is building a fleet of robots to deliver packages locally on demand. To successfully achieve this, the robots must be safe, polite and quick. But how do you get there with low computational resources and without expensive sensors such as LIDARs? This is…

Starship Technologies, a delivery robot startup founded in 2015 by two Skype co-founders, is launching its autonomous delivery service at corporate and academic campuses in Europe and the US. For the last three months, Starship’s six-wheeled robots have been delivering food and office supplies around software company Intuit’s 4.3-acre campus in Mountain View, California. Ahti…