- Serve robots enable pick-up in dense urban areas, as Wing
drones expand Serve delivery radius
- Robot-to-drone solution will enable fast, affordable
restaurant delivery over 6 mile radius
SAN
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.
In 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.
Robot-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.
"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."
"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."
Robot to drone delivery offer benefits to both merchants and
customers, including:
- Fast: Wing drones fly above the gridlock and Serve
robots operate exclusively on sidewalks, so deliveries avoid being
snarled in street traffic.
- Cost Efficient: Drones and robots both lower delivery
costs for the operator and consumer with no need for tipping.
- Environmentally-Conscious: Both fully-electric, Wing and
Serve reduce vehicle emissions associated with food delivery, as
well as reducing traffic and congestion.
- Safe: By keeping vehicles off the roads, Serve and Wing
help to cut down on traffic accidents.
- Convenient: Curbside robotic package pickup allows
merchants to access drone delivery without modifying their
facilities or installing new equipment.
To learn more about Serve robotics, visit
https://www.serverobotics.com/. For more information on Wing, visit
https://wing.com/.
About Serve Robotics
Serve Robotics develops advanced,
AI-powered, low-emissions sidewalk delivery robots that endeavor to
make delivery sustainable and economical. Spun off from Uber in
2021 as an independent company, Serve has completed tens of
thousands of deliveries for enterprise partners such as Uber Eats
and 7-Eleven. Serve has scalable multi-year contracts, including a
signed agreement to deploy up to 2,000 delivery robots on the Uber
Eats platform across multiple U.S. markets.
For further information about Serve Robotics (Nasdaq:SERV),
please visit www.serverobotics.com or follow us on social media via
X (Twitter), Instagram, or LinkedIn @serverobotics.
About Wing
Wing offers drone delivery. Our fleet of
lightweight, highly automated delivery drones can transport small
packages directly from businesses to homes and between healthcare
providers in minutes. Wing delivery is safe, sustainable, and
easy to integrate into existing delivery and logistics networks.
Wing is part of Google's parent company, Alphabet.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Serve intends such
forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor
provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 21E
of the Exchange Act. These forward-looking statements can be about
future events, including statements regarding Serve's intentions,
objectives, plans, expectations, assumptions and beliefs about
future events, including Serve's expectations with respect to the
financial and operating performance of its business, its capital
position, and future growth. The words "anticipate", "believe",
"expect", "project", "predict", "will", "forecast", "estimate",
"likely", "intend", "outlook", "should", "could", "may", "target",
"plan" and other similar expressions can generally be used to
identify forward-looking statements. Indications of, and guidance
or outlook on, future earnings or financial position or performance
are also forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements
in this press release are based on management's current
expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Risks that contribute to the uncertain
nature of the forward-looking statements include those risks and
uncertainties set forth in Serve's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2023,
filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") and in its subsequent filings filed with the SEC. All
forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak
only as of the date on which they were made. Serve undertakes no
obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur
or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were
made.
Contacts
Media
Aduke Thelwell,
Head of Communications & Investor Relations
Serve Robotics
press@serverobotics.com
Investor
Relations
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