CategorySidewalk delivery
Overview
Yandex developed the Yandex Rover autonomous sidewalk delivery robot for its Yandex Eats and Yandex Shop delivery services, operating in Russian cities since 2019. The self-driving unit was spun off as Avride in 2020, but Yandex Rover robots continue operating in Russia under the Yandex brand.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Product
Service
Spin-off
Rover payload
Rover range
Rover business model
Rover platform
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
3
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Yandex has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Avride1× joint3 total
Most recent
- Avride x Yandex2024-10-03with Avridejust announced
Yandex on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Dec 2020. Explore where Yandex's robots are operating, by place and type.
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- sidewalk delivery robots in Finland (Eurosatory 2026 showcase) →
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View the full Yandex deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Dmitry Polishchuk CEO, Avride (formerly Yandex Self-Driving Group)secondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Arkady Volozhcofounderno longer at company
Former / Previously (1)
- Arkady Volozh Co-founder & former CEO of Yandexsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Yandex.
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 →
Operator customers (1)
- Yandex1 deployment
Recent coverage
Yandex in third-party press
Peer companies
Mentioned on (10)
Registry pages whose text names Yandex.
AI systems (1)
People (4)
Boris Yangel, Dmitry Polishchuk, Arkady Volozh, Yaroslav Kolodyazhnyy
Financial state
- Employees
- 36,991
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Partnerships
1 total · 1 just announced
Every company Yandex has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Avride x Yandex2024-10-03with Avridejust announced
Most-frequent partners
- 1Avride1× joint3 total
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedDec 9, 2020
Yandex Rover at Moscow, Russia
Sources (4)
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-11
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-11
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Yandex.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Yandex from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Ukraine showed Trump how easily an enemy could cripple an AI powerhouse
Ukraine's drone attacks on three Yandex data centers in four days exposed how adversaries can cripple artificial intelligence without defeating software.
What the Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Tell Us About Central Asia’s Digital Infrastructure
Drone strikes on Yandex data centers near Moscow triggered service outages in Central Asia, too.
Russian bot farms are still trolling, even after Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex
Days after Ukrainian military drones took down several Russian data centers, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that the campaign had hurt Russia's disinformation efforts. "It…
The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - but in reality it's probably not…
Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline
Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal
Ukrainian drones strike 3 Russian data centres in 4 days, disrupting critical digital infrastructure
Three Yandex data centres have been hit by Ukrainian drones in the space of four days, knocking out facilities that support some of Russia’s most widely used online services. The…
Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter
Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex
"Yandex" Has Not Recorded a Single Accident Involving Its Robotaxis
Kazakhstan Tests Yandex Robot Couriers in Astana
Robot Drove 700 km from Moscow to St. Petersburg Without a Driver: Yandex Reports on the Development of its Autonomous Transport
Yandex's driverless truck traveled 700 km from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
Russia Proposes First Competence Model for Physical AI Specialists
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/yandex.md
- RSS feed: /companies/yandex/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/f87eec5b-22d3-4c9a-9fc9-93cd4728ddcf
- Revision history: /companies/yandex/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
Empty robot weight - 70 kg, maximum speed - 8 km / h. The robot has a wheel motor. The front axle is on an independent leaf spring suspension, and the rear door
Yandex Food Delivery Robots Standoff: Have you ever wondered what happens when two self-driving delivery robots meet on a lane? In this video, I explore the fas
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Yandex Delivery Robots on Moscow Snowy Roads are Stuck
These futuristic Yandex delivery robots are changing the game at Innopolis University in Kazan, Russia! 🤖 Watch how these AI-powered bots navigate the campus a
Video shot in Moscow in 2021 by Philip Kontzarenko
On June 2, 2025, in Moscow, Russia, a video captures a man attempting to ride on a Yandex delivery robot. In the footage, the man wearing blue shorts is seen si
Спикер Yandex robotics day: Максим Пшибло, тимлид команды разработки ядра Yandex RMS 🔺 Обсудили, какие задачи решает Robotics Management System, какие есть ва
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Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Yandex draws attention at the 83rd percentile but verifies reality at the 4th percentile among sidewalk robots. Hype Gap +78.6, 1st widest among sidewalk robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Meaningful press and media coverage across the period. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 7, 2026