{"id":182143,"date":"2024-02-06T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/starship-nabs-another-90m-in-funding-to-expand-autonomous-delivery-robot-service-globally"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:25:30","slug":"starship-nabs-another-90m-in-funding-to-expand-autonomous-delivery-robot-service-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/starship-nabs-another-90m-in-funding-to-expand-autonomous-delivery-robot-service-globally","title":{"rendered":"Starship nabs another $90M in funding to expand autonomous delivery robot service globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starship-nabs-another-90m-in-funding-to-expand-autonomous-delivery-robot-service-globally2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Veteran autonomous delivery robot developer <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/starship\/\">Starship Technologies<\/a> announced it had raised an additional $90 million in funding to help expand its micro-logistics service to additional territories around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Starship Technologies was founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis based on the idea that autonomy can help many of the challenges in last-mile deliveries. The company\u2019s L4 autonomous delivery robots have completed over six million trips to date, transporting meals, packages, groceries, and important documents to students and other customers.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2023, that <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/08\/24\/these-autonomous-robots-deliver-students-meals-while-popping-wheelies-and-using-unique-voices\/\">mileage total was five million<\/a>, operating in 30 different areas. Today, Starship\u2019s robots have expanded to 80 locations worldwide, including the US, UK, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, and Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran autonomous delivery robot developer Starship Technologies announced it had raised an additional $90 million in funding to help expand its micro-logistics service to additional territories around the globe. Starship Technologies was founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis based on the idea that autonomy can help many of the challenges [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182143","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}