It runs on electricity and moves at walking speed, enabling it to route deliveries away from crowded streets and onto sidewalks. “7 years and hundreds of millions of deliveries later — we realized that we are in unique position to create our very own autonomous delivery vehicle” A post from Postmates read…”By developing an in-house, design-first approach, Serve was built to respect cities, meets customer demands, and helps local businesses sell even more.”

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The new robot contain advanced set of sensors including Velodyne Lidar and makes use of an NVIDIA XAVIER processor for interaction with the environment. Customers can interact via a touchscreen and cameras placed on the self-driving delivery vehicle that can carry 50 lbs and go 30 miles on a single charge.

To communicate to pedestrians, it has dynamic lighting in its eyes and a light ring on top to indicate movement like a change in direction, Postmates says it could instantly pick up orders and transport them short distances away to its couriers away from occupied parking spaces and traffic for smooth delivery.

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Prototypes are being tested at senior living communities in Northern California where they learn to operate prior to being launched by the delivery unicorn.