Starship Technologies adds more universities to robot delivery service

Starship Technologies is to begin an autonomous delivery service on four additional US college campuses: University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), University of Kentucky (UK), University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach, FL campus.

All of these universities are the first in their respective states to offer autonomous on demand robot delivery service to their campus communities.

The service has already started with an initial set of merchants and hours at UNR and Embry-Riddle and will be fully operational when students return for classes.

We’ve just announced we’ve added four more universities to our service this Fall! Those at @thisisUIC, @universityofky, @unevadareno and @ERAU_Daytona will be able to experience the eco-friendly convenience of Starship autonomous deliveries. Read more here https://t.co/JjQwmVueEF pic.twitter.com/8g54Qt6FDr
— Starship Technologies (@StarshipRobots) August 10, 2021

“We’re excited to welcome such a diverse and exciting roster of schools to our service,” says Alastair Westgarth, CEO at Starship Technologies.

“We’ve worked hard to become a trusted and integrated partner on our campus communities and that hard work has paid off. We are continuing to add new schools every semester, with more to be announced this fall.”

“The students love the robots and the schools appreciate the ability to offer this service. We can’t wait to meet the students at each of these schools and look forward to hiring students on all of the campuses to give them real world experience working with robots and AI.”

Starship’s service is now available across nearly 20 different campuses in 15 states.

“We see the robots as an important part of safely bringing students back to campus,” says Dean Kennedy, executive director of Residential Life, Housing and Food Services at University of Nevada, Reno.

“Everyone wants to resume in-person classes and be back on campus so we’re doing everything we can to make sure it’s done responsibly.”

“The robots offer several advantages – they make social distancing easier, they are convenient, the students we have spoken with love this idea and they continue our heritage of being an innovative campus.”

The Starship Food Delivery app is available for download on iOS and Android. To get started, users choose from a range of their favourite food or drink items, then drop a pin where they want their delivery to be sent.

They can then watch as the robot makes its journey to them, via an interactive map. Once the robot arrives, they receive an alert, and can then meet and unlock it through the app.

Starship Technologies’ robots have made more than 1.5 million autonomous deliveries around the world, travelled millions of miles and make more than 80,000 road crossings every day.