Shake Shack And Serve Robotics Partner To Deliver Food With Robots In Los Angeles

Fast food chain Shake Shack and AI-powered delivery robots company Serve Robotics announced this Wednesday a new partnership to deliver food in Los Angeles through the Uber Eats Platform. Serve’s autonomous delivery robots will take care of customers’ orders from selected Shake Shacks in the city in the following days.

“We are excited to add another national merchant like Shake Shack to our platform, a partnership made possible through the relationship we have built with Uber Eats across tens of thousands of successful deliveries,” said Touraj Parang, President and COO of Serve Robotics.

Parang also announced that Serve expects to deploy 2,000 robots across the United States by 2025. Los Angeles is not the first city where these sidewalk robots have been used for Uber deliveries. In April, Uber and Wayno announced their first robot delivery service in Phoenix, Arizona.

Through the press release, the companies promised customers that the robots had been optimized for fast deliveries, avoiding obstacles in their GPS-planned routes, and that orders should arrive hot—or cold—and fresh. “And there’s no need to tip the robot!” states the document.

Serve Robotics has shared a short video on X featuring the four-wheeled robot with a modern cart design to promote the new service in Los Angeles. “Serve is now on delivery for Shake Shack! Select Shake Shack customers in the Los Angeles area may receive their next Uber Eats order via Serve Robotics.”

Serve is now on delivery for @shakeshack! Select Shake Shack customers in the Los Angeles area may receive their next @UberEats order via @ServeRobotics 🤖🍔🍟

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— Serve Robotics (@ServeRobotics) August 14, 2024

Los Angeles residents will be seeing multiple AI-powered independent technologies around the city as Waymo has also deployed self-driving vehicles in the city and recently got approval from regulators to use robotaxis in local freeways.