CHICAGO, Aug. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Grubhub, the leading online and mobile food-ordering
and delivery platform on college campuses, and Yandex Self-Driving
Group (SDG), a leading autonomous vehicles developer inside Yandex,
one of Europe's largest internet
companies, will roll out delivery via Yandex's robots at its first
college campus — The Ohio State
University (OSU).
More than 60,000 hungry Buckeyes will be able to order their
favorite foods from on-campus dining locations via the Grubhub app
and have them delivered by one of 50 Yandex robots operating at the
OSU campus in a fast and cost-effective way. The rovers operate
from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a
week. Students can request robots to deliver food to every
residence hall on campus as well as Thompson Library and
Bricker Hall.
Yandex robots autonomously navigate pavements, campus crosswalks
and pedestrian areas, which are notoriously challenging to reach by
car. They move around a large university campus swiftly at 3 to 5
miles per hour during daytime and after dark and in various weather
conditions, including rain and snow. The robots are spacious enough
to fit a couple of coffees and a bagel sandwich, or multiple pizzas
to share with friends, all while keeping the food at the right
temperature.
"We're excited to bring this cutting-edge and efficient delivery
experience to students at The Ohio State
University," said Brian
Madigan, vice president of corporate and campus partners at
Grubhub. "OSU and Grubhub have worked together for years to offer
students a variety of ways to enjoy the food they love on campus.
Now we're building on our efforts to enhance the dining experience
through Yandex's rover technology for quicker and easier
deliveries."
"By partnering with Grubhub, we can bring robotic delivery to
some of the people who need it most - students, researchers and
professors who are short on time," said Peter Szelei, business development executive at
Yandex SDG. "Not only do the rovers enhance the current food
delivery options, but open new possibilities for smarter, better
and faster dining. Imagine ordering morning coffee and grabbing it
from a robot waiting at your doorstep as you head out to class, or
studying in a park with friends and requesting a rover to roll up
and deliver snacks. We're thrilled to support making these
possibilities a reality."
"We pride ourselves on offering an exceptional dining experience
to students, and we're always looking to provide new ways to make
getting food on campus as convenient as possible," said
Zia Ahmed, senior director, dining
services at The Ohio State
University.
For more information on how to bring this delivery experience to
your campus, please visit here.
About Grubhub:
Grubhub is part of Just Eat
Takeaway.com (LSE: JET, AMS: TKWY, NASDAQ: GRUB), a leading global
online food delivery marketplace. Dedicated to connecting more than
33 million diners with the food they love from their favorite local
restaurants, Grubhub elevates food ordering through innovative
restaurant technology, easy-to-use platforms and an improved
delivery experience. Grubhub features more than 300,000 restaurant
partners in over 4,000 U.S. cities.
About Yandex Self-Driving Group:
Yandex has been
developing its proprietary self-driving technology since 2017. As
of today, Yandex's autonomous vehicle fleet has 170 cars, which
have driven over seven million autonomous miles on public roads in
various weather and road conditions in three countries -
Russia, Israel and the
United States. The maturity of the technology as well as the
accumulated real-world mileage makes Yandex one of the leading
developers of self-driving technology globally.
Since late 2019, the company has also been developing its own
delivery robots. Based on the same self-driving technology as its
autonomous vehicles, these rovers are built to deliver small and
medium-sized packages. Yandex robots are already delivering orders
from shops and restaurants to customers in Russia and the
United States.
More information on Yandex Self-Driving Group can be found at
https://sdg.yandex.com/.
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