Nuro's autonomous vehicles deliver their first pizzas to California

This is a new step for autonomous delivery: the Californian startup Nuro will begin delivering without human intervention to customers of a Californian 7-Eleven convenience store.

Published on 01/12/2021 à 15:46

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Nuro's autonomous vehicles deliver their first pizzas to California

Residents of this store in the city of Mountain View, California, United States, can order products such as pizza, chips, drinks or household items via the "7Now" application. They are notified when they can collect their order from the trunk of the parked vehicle.

C’est le 1er service commercial de livraison autonome lancé en Californie. Il sera assuré dans un premier temps par une ou plusieurs Toyota Prius modifiée(s). Un opérateur surveillera les trajets depuis le siège conducteur.

But Nuro will subsequently switch to its Nuro R2 robots, which already provide deliveries in Houston, Texas, for the restaurant chains Chipotle and Domino's, for the CVS Pharmacy and Walmart supermarkets, and for the carrier FedEx.

Nuro was founded in 2016 by two veterans of Google's autonomous taxi project, which became Waymo. Five years later, it is one of the few companies operating unmanned autonomous vehicles on open roads, and it is already valued at $5 billion.