First robot delivery drivers start work at Silicon Valley campus

If you work in an office park, or study at a campus university, robotic delivery drivers could be coming your way, following the first-ever commercial deployment of the technology. Starship Technologies, an autonomous delivery startup created in 2014 by two Skype co-founders, has been in public testing mode in 20 countries around the world since 2015. Now the company says it is ready for its first "major commercial rollout". Employees of finance developer Intuit in Mountain View, California, will be able to order breakfast, lunch and coffee from their staff cafeteria and have it delivered to any point in the company's Silicon Valley campus by one of Starship's 10kg six-wheeled autonomous robots. "You place your order, it's one click, then you drop a pin where you want the robot to meet you," says Starship co-founder Janus Friis. "We've seen huge demand for breakfast.