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Serve Robotics and Wing Partner to Expand Autonomous Delivery, Increasing Reach and Efficiency
Serve robots enable pick-up in dense urban areas, as Wing drones expand Serve delivery radiusRobot-to-drone solution will enable fast, affordable restaurant
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[{"type":"text","content":"Serve robots enable pick-up in dense urban areas, as Wing drones expand Serve delivery radiusRobot-to-drone solution will enable fast, affordable restaurant delivery over 6 mile radiusSAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Serve Robotics Inc. (\"Serve\") (Nasdaq: SERV), a leading autonomous sidewalk delivery company, and Wing Aviation LLC, an on-demand drone delivery provider, today announced a pilot partnership to expand eco-friendly, autonomous food delivery offering a novel solution that will redefine last mile delivery.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nIn the coming months, select Wing deliveries will be picked up by a Serve delivery robot from the restaurant's curbside and delivered to a Wing drone AutoLoader a few blocks away, for aerial delivery to customers as much as 6 miles away.\nRobot-to-drone delivery will enable merchants to tap into drone delivery without any changes to their facilities or workflow and significantly extend the delivery area for sidewalk delivery robots. This collaboration represents an important step towards enabling highly automated delivery as the preferred mode of delivery for the millions of small packages delivered every day around the world.\n\"We're excited to partner with Wing to offer a multi-modal delivery experience that expands our market from roughly half of all food deliveries that are within 2 miles of a restaurant, to offering 30 minute autonomous delivery across an entire city,\" said Dr. Ali Kashani, CEO and co-founder of Serve Robotics. \"Together, Serve and Wing share an ambitious vision for reliable and affordable robotic delivery at scale. Our end-to-end robotic delivery solution will be the most efficient mode for the significant majority of deliveries.\"\n\"At Wing, we have been delivering food and other goods directly to consumers for over five years, completing more than 400,000 commercial deliveries across three continents. We have a proven ability to make deliveries quickly and efficiently,\" said Adam Woodworth, CEO at Wing. \"Both Wing and Serve offer innovative solutions that are changing the way goods are delivered. Through this pilot partnership, Wing hopes to reach more merchants in highly-congested areas while supporting Serve as it works to expand its delivery radius.\"\nRobot to drone delivery offer benefits to both merchants and customers, including:\nFast: Wing...