Nuro R3, Starship and Serve Robotics now complete 20,000 deliveries/day in US & Europe at $1.20 fee — 1/3 of DoorDash courier cost.
Why Sidewalks First
Low speed (6 km/h), low risk, no humans inside. They navigate curbs, crosswalks and doors with the same AV stack shrunk to a cooler-sized robot.
Economics
One robot does 100 deliveries/week. At $2 fee, it pays back $8k hardware in 4 months. Hotels and dark stores are biggest adopters.