Robot model
Avride delivery robot
Avride's autonomous sidewalk delivery robot, evolved from the Yandex rover platform.
- Manufacturer
- Avride
- Form factor
- sidewalk
- Maturity
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 15
- Website
- avride.ai ↗
The verified answer
As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Avride delivery robot, a sidewalk by Avride (commercial): 15 verified deployments on record. 4 sources back the record.
Appears inLogistics robots
Overview
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.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
- Sources on file
- View all sources →
Key facts
Form factor
Maker
Drive type
Payload class
Specs
Range
Max speed
Drive mode
Payload kg
Payload class
Data & sources
Press releases
2
News coverage
1
Web sources
1
4 sources backing this record.View all →
Availability and pricing
- Availability
- Not sold (internal use)
- Price
- Not publicly disclosed
- Units in field
- Not disclosed
- Sales model
- Not disclosed
- Lead time
- Not disclosed
Pricing
No verified price is on record for Avride delivery robot. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.
Deployments (15)
BGSU announced partnership with Avride and Grubhub for new campus robot delivery service.
Avride autonomous vehicles tested in Gangnam district of Seoul.
Fleet of 50 Avride robots at University of Arizona campus via Grubhub partnership, servicing 12 dining venues.
Fleet of 120+ robots on OSU campus via Grubhub partnership — largest single-site robot food delivery program in US.
Avride robots launched in Japan via Rakuten partnership, Feb 27 2025.
Jersey City became first East Coast location for Avride robot food delivery via Uber Eats, launched Feb 2025.
Pilot phase launched in Dubai Silicon Oasis Feb 2023 in partnership with Talabat.
Avride robots operating since 2023, delivering snacks and lunches to students at GIST campus in Gwangju, South Korea.
Avride announced robotaxi service launch in Dubai in partnership with Uber, December 2025.
- Avride delivery robot at Dallas, Texas, USAoperational
Avride delivery robots also operating in Dallas by end of 2024, delivering Uber Eats orders.
Avride delivery robot on the deployment map
View the global mapWhere Avride delivery robot is verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 26, 2026
Avride delivery robot photo
- Incident recordedJul 7, 2026
Avride delivery rover crashed into parked car in Moscow and fled the scene — first...
- Incident recordedJul 7, 2026
Avride delivery rover crashed into parked car in Moscow and fled the scene, first...
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Avride rolls out its next-gen sidewalk delivery robots
- Verified media addedJun 11, 2026
A behind-the-scenes look at Jersey City's Uber Eats robots
Manufacturer-attributed media (1)
Manufacturer-supplied media at the model level. Not tied to an independently verified named-site deployment. Verification posture is product-showcase from the maker, distinct from the deployment-verified evidence in the section above.
Runs on (1)
- Avride ADSfoundation-model · pilot
Supply chain (1)
Compute / semiconductor
- NVIDIANVIDIA DRIVE Orin -- autonomous delivery robot perception and path planning computesupplies
Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.
Safety record
70 incidents on record (2 serious, 1 moderate, 67 minor). Most recent: Jul 2026.
Most recent: Jul 2026
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Incidents affecting Avride delivery robot (70)
- Jersey City cyclist injured when Avride delivery robot drove into bike lane2026-05-11 · Injury
- NHTSA opened an investigation into Avride after 16 robotaxi crashes in Dallas and Austin2026-05-06 · Regulatory action
- ADS crash report in Dallas, TX involving a HYUNDAI Ioniq 5 (NHTSA SGO 31101-15099)2026-05-01 · Collision
- ADS crash report in Dallas, TX involving a HYUNDAI Ioniq 5 (NHTSA SGO 31101-15189)2026-05-01 · Collision
- ADS crash report in Austin, TX involving a HYUNDAI Ioniq 5 (NHTSA SGO 31101-15148)2026-05-01 · Collision
- ADS crash report in Dallas, TX involving a HYUNDAI Ioniq 5 (NHTSA SGO 31101-14898)2026-05-01 · Collision
- ADS crash report in Dallas, TX involving a HYUNDAI Ioniq 5 (NHTSA SGO 31101-15100)2026-05-01 · Collision
- ADS crash report in Dallas, TX involving a HYUNDAI Ioniq 5 (NHTSA SGO 31101-14974)2026-05-01 · Collision
- ADS crash report in Dallas, TX involving a HYUNDAI Ioniq 5 (NHTSA SGO 31101-15093)2026-05-01 · Collision
Includes incidents linked directly to this model or to deployments of it. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (4)
- Avride: Delivery robot page · https://avride.ai/delivery
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/grubhub-expands-partnership-with-avride-to-bring-autonomous-delivery-robots-to-its-marketplace-302592083.html
- https://www.therobotreport.com/grubhub-partners-avride-future-food-delivery/
- https://www.avride.ai/robot
Compare Avride delivery robot
Common questions
What is Avride delivery robot?
How much does Avride delivery robot cost?
Is Avride delivery robot actually deployed in the real world?
Is Avride delivery robot autonomous or teleoperated?
What are the specs of Avride delivery robot?
Who makes Avride delivery robot?
Where is Avride delivery robot deployed?
Can you buy Avride delivery robot?
What AI powers Avride delivery robot?
What are alternatives to Avride delivery robot?
How does Avride delivery robot compare to Starship Bot?
Is Avride delivery robot a top sidewalk?
What is Avride delivery robot's maturity stage?
Is Avride delivery robot safe?
What is the Avride delivery robot?
Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-15
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-15
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: sidewalk
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Avride delivery robot.Recent coverage
Avride delivery robot in third-party press
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Avride delivery robot from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robots
Avride uses vision-language models, or VLMs, to improve the environmental awareness of its delivery robots. The post Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net…
TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China's dominance
Autnmy AI released a Road to Autonomy Index ranking Baidu Apollo Go as the top robotaxi operator ahead of Waymo, with Tesla in fifth; Texas AV tracker shows Waymo at 620 vehicles,…
Uber, Avride Roll Out Autonomous Delivery in Northern Virginia
Avride expanded autonomous delivery to Northern Virginia, the fifth market entered through its partnership with Uber and Uber Eats since late 2024.
DoorDash introduces new food delivery robot 'Dot' to Tempe, Mesa
DoorDash introducing new food delivery robot 'Dot' in Tempe and Mesa, Arizona. Expanding sidewalk delivery.
Uber Eats and Avride expand robot food delivery in Jersey City
Uber Eats and Avride expanded robot food delivery in Jersey City, doubling coverage to 100 restaurants.
Uber Eats Avride Robot Winks in Philadelphia - USA Today
<a…
New Austin robotaxi crash data shows increases for Avride, Waymo and Tesla
Austin robotaxi crash data shows increases for Avride, Waymo, and Tesla. Growing incident rates as fleets expand.
Delivery Robot Companies in Trouble as Bot Become Targets for Vandalism - Futurism
<a…
Uber Eats robot gets hostile greeting on the streets of Philadelphia - PhillyBurbs
<a…
Uber Eats delivery robot in Philadelphia gets roughed up but keeps going - USA Today
<a…
Grubhub tests robot delivery in Jersey City
Grubhub expanded its partnership with Avride to test autonomous delivery robots in Jersey City for Wonder customers, marking the first time Grubhub has offered robot delivery…
Wonder expands Grubhub robotic delivery beyond college campuses - Chain Store Age
<a…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/avride-delivery-robot.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/ec6ac2df-4c64-4b46-8a48-7a985d4cc28d
- Revision history: /models/avride-delivery-robot/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Buyer-facing pricing: deploy.report/price/avride-delivery-robot
Video
Reality vs attention
Avride delivery robot draws attention at the 89th percentile but verifies reality at the 92nd percentile among sidewalk robots. Hype Gap -3.3, 7th widest among sidewalk robots.
Analysis
Above-average adoption relative to same-category peers. Strong recent media coverage and press activity. Recent incident on record; monitoring recommended.
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: Aug 24, 2026