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  "id": 1479416,
  "title": "Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub for autonomous delivery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/serve-robotics-partners-with-grubhub-for-autonomous-delivery",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-17T12:20:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Investing.com",
    "slug": "investing-com",
    "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/serve-robotics-partners-with-grubhub-for-autonomous-delivery-93CH-4863036"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "San Francisco-based Serve Robotics (NASDAQ:SERV) has partnered with Grubhub to introduce autonomous robot delivery services to the Grubhub platform in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria. This initiative will see the service available at over 100 Grubhub merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles. Alexandria's Wonder location will also benefit from robot delivery through Serve's autonomous network as a result of this collaboration.\n\nIn addition to this partnership, Serve has expanded its operations to Washington, DC and San Jose, California, establishing itself in its seventh and eighth major U.S. markets, both in a partnership with DoorDash. These two cities together encompass a population of 8 million. In Washington DC, Serve robots will operate in Dupont Circle and various areas of downtown.\n\nTo support its operations, Serve has launched a micro-depot in Miami, a compact operating site responsible for robot staging, charging, dispatch, and maintenance. These micro-depots require less infrastructure and can be deployed more quickly than traditional facilities. Meanwhile, Diligent Robotics, a subsidiary of Serve Robotics, has begun implementing Moxi 2.0, an advanced hospital robot, in health systems such as Endeavor Health Edward Hospital in Chicago, Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Los Angeles, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.\n\nThe Moxi 2.0 robot boasts faster perception capabilities, enhanced onboard computing, and an extended operational range, capable of running for up to 18 hours with a 30 percent faster battery charging time. Serve has also unveiled Beacon, a countertop device designed to facilitate communication between restaurants, customers, and Serve robots. This device alerts restaurant staff when a robot arrives for pickup, requiring only power and no additional hardware.\n\nFurthermore, Serve Advertising has launched Characters, a product enabling brands to create conversational AI-powered personalities for Serve’s robots. The initial Character, Chomp, was developed in partnership with Grubhub.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "Serve Robotics is partnering with Grubhub after its Uber Eats partnership fell through",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/serve-robotics-is-partnering-with-grubhub-after-its-uber-eats",
        "published": "2026-08-17T13:50:41.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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