Starship partners with Grubhub to bring sidewalk bots to colleges

Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies is partnering with food ordering and delivery company Grubhub to provide robotic delivery services on college campuses across the U.S. Today, Starship’s bots deliver through Grubhub at the University of Kentucky, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wayne State University, Southern Methodist University and Fairfield University, but the companies are working on adding …

Delivery bot firm Starship has raised $100M since January

Dive Brief: Starship Technologies, a leader in the robot delivery industry, has raised nearly $100 million since the end of January, the company announced Monday. The company raised $57 million from the European Investment Bank and $42 million in a Series B funding round led by NordicNinja, a Japanese-Nordic venture capital firm, and Taavet+Sten, a venture …

Starship deploys autonomous delivery bots on a college campus

Starship,  an autonomous delivery robot startup, is deploying its first batch of robots as part of a commercial service. Starting today, Starship will begin delivering food to the 40,000 students, faculty and staff at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.  in partnership with Sodexo, a food and facilities management company. Starship says the deliveries take 15 …