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Soon, the parcel flying days will be behind us. For the people of the British city of Milton Keynes, today is the day. It's thanks to the startup of Starship Technologies autonomous robot .
For delivery of packages at the request of Starship, you must first install the application in order to receive a delivery address instead of the address of your home or place where you usually receive parcels. This delivery address provided by Starship is the location where the local installation of the company is located. When your package arrives there, the application will inform you and allow you to request a Starship bot to deliver it to you, wherever you are. Through the app, you can also find out where your package is at any time.
Starship delivers to home within a two mile radius but plans to expand its service area to be able to make more distant deliveries. The company says the battery is not a limitation, but simply wants the wait time to be as short as possible.
At the end of the year, Starship wants the service to be available to residents of the San Francisco Bay Area. The price has not yet been determined in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, Starship offers the first month free, then £ 7.99 per month for an unlimited number of parcel deliveries.
"The problem of having to reorganize one's life for a delivery will become a thing of the past. No need to change your work day, reschedule meetings, go to a locker, go to a post office or contact a courier service due to a delay in delivery. Starship sends packages to consumers whenever and wherever they want. This is the only service of this type available in the world today, and it adapts to your lifestyle. "
A few months ago, Starship raised $ 25 million from Matrix Partners and Morpheus Ventures. New investors include Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder of Airbnb, Jaan Tallinn, founding engineer of Skype, and others. Starship raised $ 42.2 million in total.
Starship has already partnered with on-demand food distribution companies such as DoorDash and Postmates to test its robot delivery service. In January of this year, Starship joined the above-mentioned companies for a pilot program in Redwood City, California and Washington, DC. To date, Starship's robots have traveled more than 125,000 km in 20 countries and 100 cities.
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