Nuro, founded by two former Google engineers in 2016, previously raised $940 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund. Google Finance reports Domino’s Pizza has a market cap of 15.15 billion.
“Nuro and Domino’s have taken a measured approach to prioritize a smooth and safe deployment,” Leipold said. Nuro and Domino’s had said in 2019 they expected to launch robot pizza delivery late that year. Nuro’s mission is to better everyday life through robotics. The deliveries are being made from Domino’s Woodland Heights location. Certain customers will have the option to get their. Self-driving delivery company Nuro is now offering delivery of Domino’s pizza in the area on certain days and times by its R2 robot vehicle. “Houston’s roadways create challenging scenarios for our technology to work with,” Leipold added. Stephen Edelstein ApComment Now Dominos and startup Nuro are launching an autonomous pizza-delivery service in Houston this week. Robotic Wonders (15 Videos) Watch this robot deliver a Dominos pizza. city, has one of the country’s highest road fatality rates. Dominos has teamed up with the autonomous vehicle company Nuro to test a new way for customers to get their pizzas. In mid-2020, Dominos launched a new way to order contactless carryout nationwide via Dominos Carside Delivery®, which customers can choose when placing a prepaid online order. Yup, you read that right Select customers from Houston can place a prepaid order on certain times and days to opt to have their pizza delivered by the R2 robot. Select customers who place an online order on certain days and times from the Domino’s in Woodland Heights can have their food delivered by Nuro’s R2 robot. Leipold said Nuro, which has already partnered with retailers Kroger Co, Walmart Inc and CVS Health Corp to deliver groceries and prescriptions, said its weekly deliveries had nearly tripled in the first three months of the pandemic. In 2019, Dominos announced a partnership with Nuro to further its exploration and testing of autonomous pizza delivery. Nuro, a 2020 RBR50 Innovation Award winner, is launching autonomous pizza delivery in Houston this week with Domino’s.
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“It’s generally difficult for large companies to hire enough drivers to fill their delivery demand,” Leipold said in an emailed statement to Reuters. Dave Ferguson, Nuro Co-Founder and President joins the Yahoo Finance Live panel to discuss the companys partnership with Dominos and investments from Chipotle and Softbank. The Nuro itself will be attacked or perhaps the WHOLE robot stolen.
Or will be asleep, in the shower, or having sex when it arrives.
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But problems I see are: Many customers are high and or drunk and will probably screw-up entering the code to get their pizza. And as a backup for when things could go haywire, Nuro has a special team of trained vehicle operators who can control the Nuro autonomous vehicle remotely.The delivery service will begin at a Domino’s outlet in Houston before expanding to serve customers in many other locations as part of a long-term partnership, said Cosimo Leipold, Nuro’s head of partner relations. Personally, as a customer I think it is super stupid.
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Dave Ferguson, co-founder of Nuro, noted that the R1 features world-class self-driving software and sensing hardware. However, for pizza deliveries with Domino's, Nuro is likely to make use of its R1 unmanned vehicle. In its official press release, Nuro noted that the new delivery service will make pizza delivery "more affordable, accessible, and enjoyable".įor its partnership with Kroger, Nuro equipped a bunch of Toyota Prius cars with self-driving software. Users will be able to track the vehicle through the app and once the Nuro vehicle reaches the address, customers will receive a code on their smartphones to unlock the Nuro vehicle and pick up their order. Once their order is ready, an executive from the Domino's store will load the pizza in the Nuro driverless vehicle, which makes use of numerous sensors and cameras to navigate to the delivery address. With Kroger too, the delivery services started in Houston, albeit earlier this year.Īnyway, now let’s see how this unmanned delivery service will work.Ĭustomers will have to order pizza through Domino's app and opt for delivery through Nuro. Nuro, a California-based robotics company started by two ex-Google employees, first started unmanned delivery services last year together with Kroger - America's largest grocery retailer. start-up Nuro is to begin delivering Domino's pizzas to select customers in Houston via its robotic R2 vehicle. The pilot phase of this delivery service will start with Houston. Under this alliance, Domino's will use Nuro's self-driving cars to deliver its pizzas. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Ap/PRNewswire/ - Domino's (NYSE: DPZ), the largest pizza company in the world based on global retail sales, and Nuro, the leading self-driving delivery company, are launching autonomous pizza delivery in Houston. Domino's, the world's largest pizza company, recently announced its partnership with Nuro to give unmanned delivery of pizzas a shot.