Starship partners with Grubhub to bring sidewalk robots to colleges
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies partners with food ordering and delivery company Grubhub to provide robotic delivery services on college campuses across the states -United
Today, Starship bots deliver via Grubhub to University of Kentucky, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wayne State University, Southern Methodist University, and University Fairfield, but companies are working on adding eight or nine more universities by the end of this year.
Starship is already working with more than 25 universities across the country to deliver food from cafeterias and on-campus restaurants. The Grubhub partnership marks a shift for Starship towards delivery as a service, with orders going through the Grubhub app, but robot operations and maintenance are still handled by Starship, according to Ryan Tuohy, Chief Commercial Officer of Starship.
"We have just launched 'Delivery by Starship' with Grubhub and are in multiple discussions with other partners to offer our world-leading robot delivery experience as a B2B Delivery-as-a-Service solution," said Tuohy told TechCrunch. . "Delivery by Starship integrates with retailers' existing platforms to make food delivery more sustainable and efficient."
This summer, Starship was among many startups that had to lay off staff and pull out of unprofitable markets. Tuohy told TechCrunch that more and more campuses are becoming profitable on a monthly basis, especially as Starship's robots become more autonomous. Partnering with streaming platforms like Grubhub while targeting college campuses could be a good way for the company to streamline and grow.
The Starship robots, of which there are between 15 and 60 roaming campuses, typically operate early in the morning and often extend late into the night in order to feed all manner of cravings. The robots can travel up to four miles per hour, can operate in rain or snow, and carry the equivalent of three bags of groceries, according to the company.
Grubhub, which is present on more than 250 college campuses across the country, also recently partnered with Cartken to bring robotic delivery to The Ohio State University. Previously, Grubhub partnered with Russian internet company Yandex at OSU and the University of Arizona, but had to pull out of that partnership at the start of the Russian war in Ukraine.
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies partners with food ordering and delivery company Grubhub to provide robotic delivery services on college campuses across the states -United
Today, Starship bots deliver via Grubhub to University of Kentucky, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wayne State University, Southern Methodist University, and University Fairfield, but companies are working on adding eight or nine more universities by the end of this year.
Starship is already working with more than 25 universities across the country to deliver food from cafeterias and on-campus restaurants. The Grubhub partnership marks a shift for Starship towards delivery as a service, with orders going through the Grubhub app, but robot operations and maintenance are still handled by Starship, according to Ryan Tuohy, Chief Commercial Officer of Starship.
"We have just launched 'Delivery by Starship' with Grubhub and are in multiple discussions with other partners to offer our world-leading robot delivery experience as a B2B Delivery-as-a-Service solution," said Tuohy told TechCrunch. . "Delivery by Starship integrates with retailers' existing platforms to make food delivery more sustainable and efficient."
This summer, Starship was among many startups that had to lay off staff and pull out of unprofitable markets. Tuohy told TechCrunch that more and more campuses are becoming profitable on a monthly basis, especially as Starship's robots become more autonomous. Partnering with streaming platforms like Grubhub while targeting college campuses could be a good way for the company to streamline and grow.
The Starship robots, of which there are between 15 and 60 roaming campuses, typically operate early in the morning and often extend late into the night in order to feed all manner of cravings. The robots can travel up to four miles per hour, can operate in rain or snow, and carry the equivalent of three bags of groceries, according to the company.
Grubhub, which is present on more than 250 college campuses across the country, also recently partnered with Cartken to bring robotic delivery to The Ohio State University. Previously, Grubhub partnered with Russian internet company Yandex at OSU and the University of Arizona, but had to pull out of that partnership at the start of the Russian war in Ukraine.
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