Serve Robotics, backed by Nvidia and Uber, raised $80 million to scale its fleet of sidewalk delivery robots across U.S. cities.
Serve aims to deploy 2,000 bots by the end of this year and achieve operational profitability once fully deployed.
The company utilizes food delivery as a testing ground and focuses on last-mile delivery with a mix of hardware, logistics, and data.
Serve's CEO, Ali Kashani, discusses the company's journey from a Postmates spinout to a publicly traded entity, the use of sidewalk bots to collect visual data, and the potential of combining ground robots and drones for last-mile logistics.