{"id":132522,"date":"2021-12-16T18:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T02:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/uber-eats-and-motional-are-working-on-driverless-food-delivery-for-2022"},"modified":"2021-12-16T18:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T02:22:45","slug":"uber-eats-and-motional-are-working-on-driverless-food-delivery-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/uber-eats-and-motional-are-working-on-driverless-food-delivery-for-2022","title":{"rendered":"Uber Eats and Motional are working on driverless food delivery for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uber-eats-and-motional-are-working-on-driverless-food-delivery-for-2022.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI doesn\u2019t just want to eat your lunch \u2014 sometimes it wants to deliver it, too.<\/p>\n<p>Driverless tech provider Motional and Uber Eats plan to add a dash of autonomy to food delivery next year in Santa Monica, serving up meal kits from select restaurants. The news was first <a href=\"https:\/\/aithority.com\/technology\/mobility\/motional-and-uber-announce-partnership-for-autonomous-deliveries\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by AiThority.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is for food deliveries to come via Motional\u2019s all-electric Hyundai IONIQ 5-based robotaxis. Motional <a href=\"https:\/\/motional.com\/news\/motional-and-uber-announce-partnership-for-autonomous-deliveries\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> this will be the first time its vehicles are used to deliver food. It\u2019s not clear whether humans or robots will bring the meal kits to customers\u2019 doorsteps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI doesn\u2019t just want to eat your lunch \u2014 sometimes it wants to deliver it, too. Driverless tech provider Motional and Uber Eats plan to add a dash of autonomy to food delivery next year in Santa Monica, serving up meal kits from select restaurants. The news was first reported by AiThority. The plan is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132522","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}