What does Serve Robotics make?

Serve Robotics has 3 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: Serve Beacon, Serve Robot, Serve Gen 3 (Serve Robotics builds physical robots).

Is Serve Robotics publicly traded?

Yes. Serve Robotics is publicly traded on public markets, per the DEPLOY registry.

Who competes with Serve Robotics?

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Serve Robotics building in the same form factors include Amazon, Unitree Robotics, DJI, AgiBot.

Who is the CEO of Serve Robotics?

Ali Kashani is the ceo of Serve Robotics, per the DEPLOY registry.

How can I invest in Serve Robotics?

Serve Robotics is publicly traded (public markets), so its shares can be bought through any broker.

Where is Serve Robotics headquartered?

Serve Robotics is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

How much funding has Serve Robotics raised?

Serve Robotics has raised approximately $247M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

Who owns Serve Robotics?

Serve Robotics is publicly held by its shareholders.

Where does Serve Robotics operate robots?

Serve Robotics operates 34 verified deployments, including at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, United States, Miami.

How many robots has Serve Robotics deployed?

DEPLOY has 34 verified Serve Robotics deployments on record at sites including Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, United States, Miami. That is a count of distinct field deployments each backed by sourced evidence, not a manufacturer's claimed unit total; it updates as new sites are verified.

Is Serve Robotics a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Serve Robotics ranks in roughly the top 8% of companies tracked by the registry.

When was Serve Robotics founded?

Serve Robotics was founded in 2017.

Are there any incidents involving Serve Robotics?

7 active incidents involving Serve Robotics are on the DEPLOY registry. Each is a sourced, append-only record; retracted incidents are suppressed from this view.

Is Serve Robotics safe?

Serve Robotics has 7 active incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. 7 incidents on record (1 serious, 6 minor). Most recent: Jul 2026. Retracted incidents are excluded from this count.

Company

Serve Robotics

amr www.serverobotics.com

Los Angeles-based autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company spun off from Uber's Postmates division.

Track Serve Robotics

Founded: 2017
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Status: Public

PublicNASDAQ: SERV

CategorySidewalk delivery

Appears inLogistics robots

Funding

$247.0M

Models

Deployments

Employees

380

Patents

Overview

Los Angeles-based autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company spun off from Uber's Postmates division. Founded by CEO Ali Kashani and VP MJ Burk Chun, Serve Robotics develops Level 4 autonomous delivery robots deployed for Uber Eats. Listed on Nasdaq: SERV. Raised $80M in total funding. Expanding to DC area and other markets in 2025.

Reality check

Safety program (company-claimed)

Injury-epidemiology approach, multi-sensor perception, risk-aware routing, city calibration.

Verified record

Verified deployments: 34 deployments on file
Active incidents: 7 incidents on file

Valuation of record

DEPLOY VERIFIED

$400M (reported, approximate)as of Jan 2025

Priced roundAdditional Funding post-money

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Key facts

Los Angeles, California

Founded

2017

Listingsee public companies →

Public, Nasdaq: SERV.

Origin

Spun out of Postmates after its acquisition by Uber.

Leadership

CEO Ali Kashani; co-founder MJ Burk Chun.

Product

Autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, mainly via Uber Eats.

Markets

Los Angeles, San Francisco and Dallas.

LA footprint (reported, May 2026)

500+ robots across 6 zones covering 40 neighborhoods, incl. Koreatown.

Total funding (reported, unconfirmed)

$80M

Incident (reported, Mar 2026)

A robot shattered a Chicago CTA bus shelter.

Data & sources

Company filings

Press releases

News coverage

Patent documents

Web sources

20 sources backing this record.View all →

Models (3)

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Current platform

Serve Beacon

Cellular-connected restaurant pickup device that alerts staff the moment a Serve delivery robot arrives. Requires nothing from a restaurant beyond power — no tablet, no additional hardware, no changes to existing systems. Designed to speed up pickup for current restaurant partners while extending robot delivery to restaurants whose back-of-house setups previously could not support it.

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Current platform

Serve Robot

Level 4 autonomous sidewalk delivery robot for last-mile food delivery via Uber Eats. It is a sidewalk delivery robot designed for physical AI applications. Key specifications include Listing: Public, Nasdaq: SERV, Robots: Sidewalk delivery robots (Uber Eats and other partners), Origin: Spun off from Uber/Postmates, Notable incident: Robot 'Nasir' shattered a Chicago CTA bus shelter (Mar 2026), CEO: Ali Kashani, Co-founder: MJ Burk Chun, Stock: Nasdaq: SERV, Total funding: 47M, Partners: Uber Eats.

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Current platform

Serve Gen 3

Serve Gen 3 is the third-generation autonomous sidewalk delivery robot of Serve Robotics, a public company listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker SERV, and is recorded in the sidewalk form factor as the public-company counterpoint to privately held delivery peers, since its SEC-disclosed quarterly filings give it stronger verification depth. Serve originated as Postmates X, the robotics division founded around 2017, and spun out as an independent company on March 2, 2021 with seed funding led by Neo after Uber acquired Postmates for 2.65 billion dollars, with Uber retaining a minority stake that has diluted over time; it later became public through a 2023 SPAC merger rather than a conventional initial public offering, and is led by co-founder and chief executive Ali Kashani. The Gen 3 robot, rolled out in October 2024, is roughly twice as fast and travels twice as far as Gen 2 at about half the manufacturing cost, with five times the onboard compute on NVIDIA Jetson Orin, an Ouster REV7 digital lidar, and a multi-sensor suite of RGB and time-of-flight cameras, ultrasonics, and GPS, and it operates as an operator-supervised Level 4 system, remotely monitored from Serve's local operations centers with human oversight and takeover available rather than being driverless. Its anchor commercial relationship is a May 2023 agreement with Uber to deploy up to two thousand robots on Uber Eats across US markets, since extended with DoorDash and a Shake Shack tie-in. As of its first-quarter 2026 results Serve reported revenue of three million dollars, about 197 million dollars in cash and marketable securities, a net loss of forty-nine million dollars, and 812 daily-active robots within a built fleet of roughly two thousand across forty-four cities in fourteen states; the registry records the verified active markets as US-only, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, and Alexandria, Virginia, and treats the two-thousand-robot figure as built capacity rather than simultaneously active.

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Partnerships

Every company Serve Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

8 total8 operating1 ended

Most-frequent partners

1Uber2× joint36 total
2Diligent Robotics1× joint
3Grubhub1× joint2 total
4Grubhub1× joint
5NVIDIA1× joint132 total
6Shake Shack1× joint

Most recent

Serve Robotics x Grubhub2026-08-19
with Grubhuboperating
Serve Robotics x Grubhub (Wonder)2026-08-17
with Grubhuboperating
Serve Robotics x Wingstop (branded delivery robots)2026-07-29
with Wingstopoperating
Serve Robotics x Shake Shack x Uber Eats2026-06-15
with Shake Shackoperating
Serve Robotics and T-Mobile edge AI for delivery robots2026-04-01
with T-Mobileoperating

Serve Robotics on the deployment map

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34 verified deployments across 14 regions, newest verified Oct 2026. Explore where Serve Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.

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Relationships

GGrubhubCustomerWWonderCustomerWWingstopCustomerSShake ShackCustomerTT-MobileTechnology partner NNVIDIAInvestor UUberInvestor WWavemaker PartnersInvestor UUberCustomerDDiligent RoboticsCo-developer

Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by Serve Robotics, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 100% (3 of 3 resolved claims verified; 3 tracked)

VerifiedSafety · claimed 2026-06-01
“99.8% completion rate”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
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VerifiedCapability · claimed 2026-01-01
“Serve Robotics develops advanced, AI-powered, low-emissions sidewalk delivery robots that endeavor to make delivery sustainable and economical”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
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VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2025-10-06 · deadline 2025-12-31
“Serve reiterated that it remains on track to reach 2,000 deployed robots by the end of 2025”
Serve achieved 2,000 robot target by Dec 2025. Deployed across 20 cities, 6 metros. Operates on Uber Eats platform.
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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Serve Robotics, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

What is a sidewalk delivery robot?

A sidewalk delivery robot is a small autonomous wheeled vehicle that operates in the sidewalk regulatory regime (not roads) for last-mile delivery of food, packages, and small goods. Per DEPLOY's framework, the cohort enumerates as: Starship Technologies (canonical scaled commercial, multi-country, millions of deliveries) + Coco + Serve Robotics (NASDAQ SERV; Uber Eats partnership) + Kiwibot + Avride + Cartken (hardware-sale; ex-Google founders; Mitsubishi + Uber Eats + Melco ~100-Hauler order) + Ottonomy (RaaS-lease ~$999/mo) + Refraction AI + Delivers AI + (Amazon Scout discontinued Oct 6 2022 + FedEx Roxo paused 2022 + Tortoise shut down 2023 as wind-down record). Business model spectrum: hardware sale (Cartken) vs RaaS-lease (Ottonomy + Refraction) vs captive service (Starship + Delivers AI). State-by-state regulatory variation is the canonical operational gate. Wind-down record is honest editorial signal, not smoothed.Read the full explainer →

What is Serve Robotics?

Serve Robotics is a publicly-traded sidewalk delivery robot company (NASDAQ: SERV), SoftBank-backed, with Uber Eats partnership as the canonical commercial customer relationship. Commercial active in Los Angeles + Dallas-Fort Worth + Vancouver; per Agent A foundational ingest audit-first against Model sources, current operational scope + delivery scale should be verified against current Serve public filings + Uber Eats partnership disclosure. Per DEPLOY's framework, Serve's public-listing verification depth (NASDAQ SEC filings) is editorially substantive: the financial-disclosure transparency makes verified-vs-claimed especially clean. Cohort position: publicly-traded sidewalk delivery anchor + captive service business model + commercial active state.Read the full explainer →

Which sidewalk delivery robot is most deployed?

The Starship Bot from Starship Technologies, with 10M+ lifetime autonomous deliveries by April 2026 and a several-thousand-unit fleet across US, UK, Estonia, Germany, and Finland campuses. No competitor is within an order of magnitude.Read the full explainer →

What is the cheapest sidewalk delivery robot for a commercial operator?

No sidewalk delivery robot is sold to commercial operators in 2026: all run captive Robots-as-a-Service. Starship is cheapest by inferred build cost ($3K-$7K per unit, per an Oct 2025 Guardian profile) and by scale (3,000+ robots, 10M+ deliveries).Read the full explainer →

Current leadership (7)

Ali Kashani Co-founder, CEO & Chairmansecondary-verified
Touraj Parang President & COOsecondary-verified
Brian Read Chief Financial OfficerIR-verified
MJ Burk Chun Co-founder & VP Product and DesignIR-verified
Anthony Armenta Chief Software and Data OfficerIR-verified
Euan Abraham Chief Hardware & Manufacturing OfficerIR-verified
Dmitry Demeshchuk Co-founder & VP of Softwaresecondary-verified

Founders (3)

Ali Kashanicofounderfounded 2021-01-01
Dmitry Demeshchukcofounderfounded 2021-01-01
MJ Burk Chuncofounderfounded 2021-01-01

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Board (6)

Ali Kashani chair
Touraj Parang director
Sarfraz Maredia director
David Goldberg director
Lily Sarafan director
Olivier Vincent director

Former / Previously (1)

Dmitry Demeshchuk Co-foundersecondary-verified

Safety record

7 incidents on record (1 serious, 6 minor). Most recent: Jul 2026.

serious: 1
minor: 6

property damage: 3
regulatory action: 2
injury: 1
other: 1

Most recent: Jul 2026

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Incidents affecting Serve Robotics (7)

DDOT issues sidewalk robot permits to Serve Robotics and Coco Robotics for food delivery in Washington DC2026-07-16 · Regulatory action
Georgia HB 986 takes effect July 1, 2026 - delivery robot sidewalk speed raised to 7 mph2026-07-01 · Regulatory action
New Jersey cyclist sues after delivery robot hit-and-run leaves him with broken shoulder and head injury2026-05-11 · Injury
Serve Robotics delivery robot crashes through CTA bus shelter glass in West Town Chicago2026-03-22 · Property damage
via Serve Gen 3 at Chicago
Serve Robotics delivery robot crashed into CTA bus shelter in Chicago, shattering glass2026-03-22 · Property damage
Serve Robotics delivery robot 'Nasir' shattered a CTA bus shelter in Chicago's West Town2026-03-22 · Property damage
Serve Robotics delivery robot and mobility-scooter user involved in sidewalk encounter, West Hollywood (Sept 2025)2025-09-12 · Other

Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Corridors where Serve Robotics operates (5)

AtlantaAtlanta, GA
ChicagoChicago, IL
Dallas-Fort WorthDallas, TX
LA: West SideLos Angeles, CA
MiamiMiami, FL

Robot-delivery corridors on DEPLOY Ground where Serve Robotics runs a documented fleet.

Operator customers (1)

Serve Robotics34 deployments

Recent coverage

Serve Robotics in third-party press

Those cute delivery robots could be the new Flock surveillance menace

Oct 26, 2026

Delivery Robots Swarm Lincoln Park Sidewalk In Viral Video As Pushback Grows

Sep 3, 2026

San Jose let delivery robots roll before writing the rules. Next come 350-pound machines

Aug 27, 2026

Peers

90 peers across 2 segments. Every Serve Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

amr(85)

53 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2073.1177093090264) · leader Boston Dynamics at 4191%

last mile delivery(5)

Coco Roboticsdirect competitor(reported)
strong
Starship Technologiesdirect competitor(reported)
strong
Avridedirect competitor(reported)
moderate
Nuroadjacent competitor(reported)
moderate
Ottonomydirect competitor(reported)
moderate

Mentioned on (51)

Registry pages whose text names Serve Robotics.

Companies (4)

DoorDash, Phantom Auto, Grubhub, Diligent Robotics

Robots and products (3)

Serve Gen 3, Serve Robot, Serve Beacon

Deployments (23)

Serve Gen 3 at Chicago, Illinois, USA, Serve Gen 3 at Alexandria, Virginia, USA, Moxi at Global (multiple sites), Serve Gen 3 at Chicago, Illinois, USA, Serve Gen 3 at Dallas-Houston Corridor, Texas, USA, Serve Gen 3 at Alexandria, Serve Gen 3 at Atlanta, Serve Gen 3 at Fort Lauderdale, Serve Gen 3 at West Hollywood, Serve Gen 3 at Hollywood, Serve Robot at Atlanta, Coco Bot at Larchmont / Hancock Park, Serve Robot at Miami, Serve Robot at Los Angeles, Serve Gen 3 at Koreatown, Serve Gen 3 at Washington, D.C., Serve Gen 3 at Chicago, Serve Gen 3 at Miami, Serve Gen 3 at Miami, Serve Robot at Dallas, Serve Gen 3 at Los Angeles, Serve Gen 3 at San Jose, California, USA, Moxi at United States

People (11)

Dmitry Demeshchuk, Olivier Vincent, Lily Sarafan, David Goldberg, Sarfraz Maredia, Euan Abraham, Anthony Armenta, MJ Burk Chun, Brian Read, Touraj Parang, Ali Kashani

Incidents (10)

Serve Robotics

Overview

Reality check

Key facts

Data & sources

Models (3)

Serve Beacon

Serve Robot

Serve Gen 3

Partnerships

Serve Robotics on the deployment map

Relationships

Claims ledger

Explainers

Current leadership (7)

Founders (3)

Board (6)

Former / Previously (1)

Safety record

Incidents affecting Serve Robotics (7)

Corridors where Serve Robotics operates (5)

Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Peers

amr(85)

last mile delivery(5)

Mentioned on (51)

Supplied by (2)

Compute / semiconductor

Sensors

Financial state

Partnerships

All 8 partnerships

Funding rounds (2)

Acquisitions (1)

Patent estate (1)

Timeline

Recent activity

Sources (19)

Common questions

Peer companies

In the press

Those cute delivery robots could be the new Flock surveillance menace

Delivery Robots Swarm Lincoln Park Sidewalk In Viral Video As Pushback Grows

San Jose let delivery robots roll before writing the rules. Next come 350-pound machines

TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions

Serve Robotics to deploy its autonomous delivery robots with Grubhub

Serve Robotics adds Grubhub to delivery network as Diligent rolls out Moxi 2.0

Serve Robotics Adds Grubhub as Delivery Partner, Expands to Two More Cities

How Delivery Robots Can Transform the Last Mile

Serve Robotics Expands DoorDash Deal in Two Cities, Adds Grubhub Post-Uber Riff

Serve Teams Up with Wonder and Grubhub Amid a New Wave of Expansion

Serve Launches Robot Delivery with Wonder, Adding Grubhub to Its Growing Delivery Network

Wonder, Serve Robotics partner to expand autonomous delivery on Grubhub

Machine-readable surfaces

Peer companies

Video