Avride Uber Eats self-driving robot - 06

Avride Inc. is a developer of

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technology, including

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s, and

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s. The company is headquartered in Newburyport, MA with warehouse in Austin, Texas and has additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Belgrade, Serbia and Seoul, South Korea. It is a subsidiary of

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. Its

s and delivery robots are used by

Uber Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides Ridesharing company, ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, a ...

and

Uber Eats Uber Eats is an online food ordering and delivery platform launched by the company Uber in 2014. It is operational in over 6,000 cities in 45 countries as of 2021. History Uber Eats' parent company Uber was founded in 2009 by Garrett ...

in a few cities.

History

Avride was formed in 2020 when

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and Uber completed the

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group, which began developing

s in 2017. In July 2024,

, which owned Yandex, sold its assets in Russia, retaining Avride. In October 2024, Avride and Uber entered a partnership for

and

to use Avride's

s and

s. By the end of 2024, the robots were delivering orders from Uber Eats in Austin and Dallas. In February 2025, delivery robots were launched for Uber Eats in Jersey City, New Jersey. In March 2025, the company announced a partnership with

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to develop

Products

Self-driving cars

Avride’s

s are retrofitted

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s. The vehicles are equipped with

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s, radars, cameras and other sensors, as well as with computational hardware and various electronic units that collect data from sensors and the car, preprocess this information, and perform diagnostics. The company conducts on-road testing of its

s in Austin, Texas, and in the

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district of Seoul, South Korea.

Delivery robots

Avride operates

s, which deliver foods from restaurants in the United States and South Korea. They navigate sidewalks at the speed of 8 km/h (5 mph) and can cross the roads using crosswalks and traffic lights. Robots are designed by the company and utilize some of the software it has developed for its autonomous cars. Like the company's cars, the robots are also equipped with lidars, cameras, and

ultrasonic sensors Ultrasonic transducers and ultrasonic sensors are devices that generate or sense ultrasound energy. They can be divided into three broad categories: transmitters, receivers and transceivers. Transmitters convert electrical signals into ultrasou ...

. The robots are being produced in a factory in Taiwan.

References

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