Serve Robotics, a maker of self-driving sidewalk delivery robots, is expanding beyond its autonomous delivery operations in a bid to become a technology supplier to other companies building robots.<\/p>\n
The company, which spun out of Uber\u2019s acquisition of Postmates in 2021 and went public in 2024, said Thursday it will launch a new business line called Physical AI Services.<\/p>\n
Specifically, Serve Robotics will offer customers its connectivity and data tools. Bedrock Robotics, a startup developing self-driving systems for construction equipment, is a customer, according to Serve. It\u2019s also working with T-Mobile to bring AI computing power closer to robots, Serve announced alongside its third-quarter earnings on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are solving the problem of robots in human spaces,\u201d Serve Robotics CEO and co-founder Ali Kashani told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n
Serve Robotics already makes two kinds of robots, the cute googly-eyed sidewalk delivery robot and one designed for hospitals that it got through its acquisition of Diligent Robotics.<\/p>\n
Those businesses are not going away, Kashani emphasized in a recent interview. Instead, he said there is opportunity to sell the technology it developed for its own robots to other companies developing robots for farms, warehouses, and other uncontrolled environments. <\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of think of it as the AWS moment where we are taking the technology we\u2019ve built for us, and we\u2019re opening it up for more people to build on,\u201d he said, adding this wouldn\u2019t have been possible without developing its own robot fleet.<\/p>\n
The expansion comes as Serve\u2019s sidewalk delivery business expands, but is shifting away from Uber and toward other partners, including DoorDash and Wonder.<\/p>\n
Its new Physical AI Services business line will offer three products. Serve Link helps connect robots in the field to AI systems running in data centers, which would allow companies to potentially tap into more powerful AI models without having to put all that computing power onboard.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny robotic application generally needs to connect the robots to some offline intelligence, whether it\u2019s to collect data or do exception handling or whatever,\u201d said Kashani. \u201cIt\u2019s the connectivity piece that has to be really high performance. You need to be able to manage really unreliable networks and still reliably connect, and that\u2019s what we solve.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also launching a data curator tool that helps companies find edge cases in the reams of real-world data a robot collects, which can then be fed back into a training model to improve performance. Its third product is a real-world, foundation-model data catalog built from Serve\u2019s own sidewalk robots that can teach AI models how to understand complex human environments.<\/p>\n
Kashani said he\u2019s been thinking about this idea \u2014 a playbook he learned from Amazon \u2014 for years. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the technology is so nascent, you have got to build the end-to-end application because that\u2019s the only way you know what to build, but then over time, as the technology gets more advanced, a lot more people are going to be wanting to build similar things,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd what you want to do is to open your technology so others build with you and on your platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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