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Starship Technologies is exiting U.S. university campus delivery operations and redeploying more than 1,200 robots toward grocery and restaurant delivery in cities across the United States and Europe.
The Tallinn, Estonia-based company cited grocery demand from major retailers as the driver, saying its grocery delivery operations are on a 10x growth trajectory over the next two years.
The Economic Case for Grocery Chief executive and co-founder Ahti Heinla says Starship's robots can deliver groceries at a cost $3 to $4 lower per delivery than traditional courier fulfillment — a figure designed to appeal to retailers grinding through last-mile economics.
The company says it has completed more than 10 million deliveries and points to Finland, where its robots already handle roughly one in five grocery orders, as the replicable model.
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