{"id":105047,"date":"2020-04-09T21:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T04:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/starship-technologies-is-sending-its-autonomous-robots-to-more-cities-as-demand-for-contactless-delivery-rises"},"modified":"2020-04-12T15:41:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T22:41:28","slug":"starship-technologies-is-sending-its-autonomous-robots-to-more-cities-as-demand-for-contactless-delivery-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/starship-technologies-is-sending-its-autonomous-robots-to-more-cities-as-demand-for-contactless-delivery-rises","title":{"rendered":"Starship Technologies is sending its autonomous robots to more cities as demand for contactless delivery rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starship-technologies-is-sending-its-autonomous-robots-to-more-cities-as-demand-for-contactless-delivery-rises.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/starship-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\">Starship Technologies<\/a> has launched a robot food delivery service in Tempe, Ariz., as part of the autonomous delivery startup\u2019s expansion plans following a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/08\/20\/starship-technologies-raises-40m-crosses-100k-deliveries-and-plans-to-expand-to-100-new-universities\/\">$40 million funding round<\/a> announced last August.<\/p>\n<p>Starship Technologies, which was launched in 2014 by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/skype\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"skype\">Skype<\/a> co-founders Ahti Heinla and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/person\/janus-friis\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"janus-friis\">Janus Friis,<\/a> has been ramping up commercial services in the past year, including a plan to expand to 100 universities by late summer 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing traditional restaurants to close and placing more pressure on gig economy workers, Starship Technologies has an opportunity to accelerate that growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starship Technologies has launched a robot food delivery service in Tempe, Ariz., as part of the autonomous delivery startup\u2019s expansion plans following a $40 million funding round announced last August. Starship Technologies, which was launched in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, has been ramping up commercial services in the past year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105232,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105047\/revisions\/105232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}