Deployment
Delivers AI robot (YEBO) at Istanbul
Delivers AI (also Delivers.ai; based in London and Istanbul, founded 2021) makes a small autonomous sidewalk delivery robot that travels at 6 to 7 kilometers per hour with about a 15-kilogram payload, using camera, LiDAR, and radar under human supervision. The registry records it at pilot to early-commercial maturity on the strength of a live public service in Istanbul with Yemeksepeti, Turkey's leading food-delivery platform, under the YEBO brand scaled to about ten robots, alongside pilots across the United Kingdom, France, and Turkey. It operates a captive delivery service for partner food-delivery platforms, the classic sidewalk-delivery model, in contrast to Cartken's pivot to industrial sales and the robots-as-a-service leasing of Ottonomy and Refraction. Its company-reported figure of more than 100,000 cumulative deliveries by mid-2024 is not independently verified, its stated expansion to Bulgaria, Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia is a plan rather than realized deployment, and its exact current fleet beyond the roughly ten Istanbul robots is not confirmed.
Delivers AI robot (YEBO) by Delivers AI · Operated by Yemeksepeti · Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verified
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Delivers AI YEBO (YEmeksepeti BOt) sidewalk delivery robots launched in Istanbul, Turkey on May 5, 2022, operated by Yemeksepeti (Delivery Hero subsidiary), Turkey's largest food delivery platform.
The initial deployment launched in the Caddebostan neighborhood of Istanbul with approximately 10 robots serving a 2 km delivery radius from 10 participating restaurants. Orders are placed through the Yemeksepeti mobile app; the robots navigate sidewalks autonomously, can climb curbs up to 15 cm, and maintain food temperature in an insulated compartment.
In November 2023 Yemeksepeti expanded the program to Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Ayazaga Campus, enabling on-campus food delivery. The campus deployment marked an expansion into controlled pedestrian environments alongside street-level urban operations.
Delivers AI (Israel-based) co-developed the YEBO platform with Yemeksepeti. The company stated plans to expand to 11 European cities by end of summer 2022.
Key facts
- Launch date
- May 5, 2022
- Initial zone
- Caddebostan neighborhood, Istanbul (~10 robots, 2 km radius)
- Operator
- Yemeksepeti (Delivery Hero subsidiary, Turkey's largest food delivery platform)
- Ordering channel
- Yemeksepeti mobile app
- Expansion
- ITU Ayazaga Campus, November 2023
- Robot name
- YEBO (YEmeksepeti BOt)
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-12
- Model
- Delivers AI robot (YEBO)
- Company
- Delivers AI
- Location
- Turkey/Istanbul
- Operator
- Yemeksepeti
- Status
- operational
- First seen
- 2022-05-05
- ID
ace4aada-44c7-4d32-a377-4b051165afdb
Sources (3)
- Delivers AI Launches Robot Delivery in Istanbul with Yemeksepeti · https://www.ottomate.news/p/delivers-ai-launches-robot-delivery · 2022-04-13
- Yemeksepeti's delivery robot YEBO is now on the ITU Ayazaga Campus · https://kurumsal.yemeksepeti.com/en/newsroom/yemeksepetis-delivery-robot-yebo-is-now-on-the-itu-ayazaga-campus/ · 2023-11-06
- Autonomous Delivery Robot YEBO is at our Ayazaga Campus · https://haberler.itu.edu.tr/en/newsdetail/2023/11/07/autonomous-delivery-robot-yebo-is-at-our-ayazaga-campus · 2023-11-07
Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-12
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: pilot
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: sidewalk
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Delivers AI robot (YEBO) at Istanbul.Common questions
- What is the Delivers AI robot (YEBO) deployment at Istanbul?
- Delivers AI robot (YEBO), built by Delivers AI, is recorded as a deployment at Istanbul on the DEPLOY registry. Yemeksepeti operates the deployment.
- Who operates Delivers AI robot (YEBO) at Istanbul?
- Yemeksepeti operates this deployment as a customer of Delivers AI, the manufacturer of Delivers AI robot (YEBO).
- When did the Delivers AI robot (YEBO) deployment at Istanbul go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting May 5, 2022 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the Delivers AI robot (YEBO) deployment at Istanbul?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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