Deployment
Avride delivery robot at Ohio State University
Avride's autonomous sidewalk delivery robot, evolved from the Yandex rover platform. Operates in active service across multiple U.S. cities through partnerships with Uber Eats and others.
Avride delivery robot by Avride · Machine verified · Sidewalk delivery
Recent coverage
- Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robotsRobotics Business Review · 2026-07-04
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- Uber, Avride Roll Out Autonomous Delivery in Northern VirginiaBen Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-06-17
Avride deployed 100 delivery robots at Ohio State University in partnership with Grubhub as of February 2025.
Key facts
- Fleet
- 100 delivery robots
- Operator
- Avride
- Coverage
- Ohio State University
- Partner
- Grubhub
- Start
- February 2025
- Technology
- Avride delivery robot
Exposure
- Customer segment
- retail
- Scale tier
- undisclosed
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Avride delivery robot at Ohio State University.
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- Trust tier
- Machine verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-08-21
- Company
- Avride
- Location
- United States/Ohio/Ohio State University
- Operator
- Avride
- Status
- operational
- Operator type
- maker operated
- Scale at site
- undisclosed
- Site environment
- outdoor
- Location precision
- verified coordinates
- First seen
- 2025-01-01
- ID
114fdf93-a714-44a0-8cf7-80ac56340485
Timeline
- Jan 2025First recordedAvride delivery robot first documented operating at Ohio State University.
- May 2026created
- Aug 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
Avride delivery robot operates in Ohio State University. Explore the full verified map:
Verifications (1)
- Machine verified by DEPLOY content-agent (Sprint 1.5 re-verification)2026-05-30
- asOf
- 2026-05-30
- basis
- Avride autonomous sidewalk delivery active at Ohio State (Grubhub campus marketplace; Oct 2025 expansion).
- status
- active
Sources (2)
- Avride + Grubhub: 100 robots at Ohio State University · https://techcrunch.com/?p=2965197 · 2025-02-01
- https://avride.com/
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: sidewalk
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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- REST API: /v1/robots/114fdf93-a714-44a0-8cf7-80ac56340485
- Data documentation: /data
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