Serve Robotics is to outfit its delivery robots with Ouster's digital Lidar sensors to expand its autonomous delivery fleets across US cities and beyond.
Serve says the digital Lidar is fused into the robot’s autonomy stack to locate its precise position and simultaneously generate a real-time 3D map of its surrounding environment so that it can navigate more safely on city pavements alongside pedestrians.
Euan Abraham, Serve Robotics' vice president of hardware engineering, says: “We have been working with Ouster for well over a year and continue to be impressed by the ongoing performance improvements, quality, and reliability of its digital technology. We feel confident that Ouster is the right company to scale with us as we move into this next phase of market expansion with Level 4 autonomy delivering for several new commercial partners.”
Serve's SAE Level 4 autonomous robots will help the company expand into new areas as it rolls out a delivery service for Uber Eats in 2022.
Nate Dickerman, Ouster’s president of field operations, says: “Serve Robotics is one of our longest standing customers and one of the first to commercially deploy AV technology in a real-world environment alongside pedestrians and vehicles. We are thrilled to further solidify our relationship with a multi-year strategic customer agreement as Serve scales the production and deployment of its sidewalk delivery robots.”
