To help do all these jobs, the robot needs a list of instructions called a program. The computer uses the program to tell the robot how to move and what to do. The robot can only do what the ...

Starship Technologies co-founder Ahti Heinla told Business Insider that people sometimes kick the company's food-delivery robots. He said the vast majority of interactions with its machines are ...

UberEats has a partnership with Coco in other cities. There was also a separate delivery robot pilot program on the University of Illinois Chicago campus, though that ended in 2024.