Starship Technologies releases 2021 Robot Wrap Up report
US-based autonomous delivery services firm, Starship Technologies, has revealed its 2021 Robot Wrap Up, highlighting the most popular and quirky requests and orders that its fleet of more than 1,000 robots have received in the past year.
The difference between order habits in the UK and US is clear, with French fries, boneless wings, iced coffee and curly fries all among the top five most popular orders in the latter country.
While breakfast appears to be the priority for Brits, with orders of milk, bananas, bread and eggs accounting for their most frequently ordered items.
Coffee and Chinese food have remained the overall top delivery items globally since Starship started commercial deliveries in 2018.
While grocery and hot food delivery remains the primary business model, Starship’s robots have also played a pivotal role in an engagement and Milton Keynes’s bid for official UK city status (delivering a petition to Buckingham Palace).
They have also helped Ryan Seacrest on American Idol, and hung out with the new Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz.
The record for the most orders by any individual goes to a person at Arizona State University, who placed 230 orders with Starship during 2021.
October, meanwhile, was the most popular month for deliveries.
Starship’s zero-emission robots make more than 100,000 road crossings every day and have completed over two million commercial deliveries globally.
They use a combination of sensors, artificial intelligence and machine learning to travel on pavements and sidewalks and navigate around any obstacles, while computer vision-based navigation helps them map their location to the nearest inch.
