Starship gets green light for more US pilot programmes
Starship Technologies has announced that it has secured approved to run pilot programmes for its delivery robots in Washington DC and Redwood City in California. This follows on from approvals for pilot testing in Coeur D’Alene in Idaho, and the company is also working with five cities in Europe.
The Mayor of Redwood City, John Seybert, commented: “We’re excited that Starship Technologies chose Redwood City for this innovative autonomous robot program. It has strong potential to not only reduce traffic in Redwood City, but allow restaurants and businesses to serve a greater number of customers.”
Starship is working closely with a number of cities in the US including Sunnyvale, San Carlos, and Menlo Park to gain permission for robot pilot programs.
Similar efforts are continuing in Europe after testing programmes in London, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Bern and Tallinn.
“After successfully securing permission in Washington, DC and Redwood City, we can expand our extensive research and development programme,” added Ahti Heinla, CEO, Starship. “We actively seek out places like Washington, DC and Redwood City that share our vision for the future of delivery and we look forward to working closely with them during our pilot.”
In the European tests, Starship has been working with Just Eat, Swiss Post, Hermes and Metro Group and it said that “commercial partners for the US operations will be announced soon”.
