Uber is starting a service in Japan with partners Mitsubishi Electric and autonomous robotics startup Cartken. The service will use self-driving sidewalk robots to bring food to customers.
The service will be available in some parts of Tokyo through the Uber Eats app by the end of March, the companies said. A representative for Uber said that the business’s hours would be made public closer to the launch date.
Together, Uber and Cartken, a new company started in 2019 by former Google workers who worked on the short-lived Bookbot, already run a delivery service in Fairfax, Virginia, and Miami. They have never done business outside of the United States before this new deal. Mitsubishi Electric is also involved; this company will be in charge of running things in Tokyo.
The delivery service will use Model C, Cartken’s self-driving sidewalk robot. The robot moves at about 3.3 miles per hour and has a 27-liter cargo bin that is protected. The robot has sensors, like cameras, and high-tech tools that help it find things, understand them, and then find its way around. Cartken also has a system that lets workers watch and control the robot from afar if they need to. Someone from Uber said that Mitsubishi Electric employees who have been taught in Cartken’s remote guidance system will use the teleoperations interface.
Shoji Tanaka, senior general manager of Mitsubishi Electric’s advanced application development center, said that robot delivery is a good way to deal with the logistics problem, which will get worse over time.
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Tanaka said, “We hope that this newly announced project will help drive the growth of robot delivery services in Japan.” “In the future, we will work with buildings and factory infrastructure, which is one of our specialties. This means that self-driving robots will be able to supply different buildings.”
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