As Serve Robotics rapidly scales its commercial robotic delivery operations, the company is partnering with DriveU.auto to deploy advanced connectivity solutions across its autonomous vehicle fleet. DriveU.auto's platform will provide reliable, low-latency communications capabilities, allowing Serve to remotely monitor and control its thousands of delivery robots hitting the streets.

Serving Up Seamless Robotic Delivery at Scale Serve Robotics, which spun out of Uber in 2021, has an operating contract to provide autonomous local delivery services for Uber Eats in select markets. The company plans to deploy up to 2,000 of its robots to fulfill that partnership, as well as meet demand from other major clients like Walmart and 7-Eleven as it expands a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) business model.

"In order to rapidly scale to thousands of robots, Serve needs to leverage the capabilities of world-class technology partners like DriveU.auto," stated Dmitry Demeshchuk, Serve's co-founder and VP of software engineering. "DriveU's connectivity platform will help us improve the resilience and performance of our fleet, unlock operational efficiencies, and realize economies of scale."

Connecting the Autonomous Delivery Ecosystem DriveU.auto has pioneered a software connectivity platform expressly designed for teleoperation of self-driving vehicles and robots. The system enables remote driving, assistance via high-level commands, real-time telemetry monitoring, and cloud computing integration - all with ultra-low latency and high reliability assured.

The Israeli startup's proprietary cellular bonding and dynamic video encoding technologies have already been deployed across autonomous vehicle pilots in the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, and Israel. Customers include major automakers, suppliers, autonomous trucking companies, and robotic delivery providers like Serve.

"Connectivity is a critical element in every driverless vehicle," said DriveU.auto CEO Alon Podhurst. "Our expanding roster of commercial partnerships is a testament to DriveU's leading position in enabling AV operations."

An Added Autonomy Advantage Among the key benefits for Serve, DriveU.auto offers native support for the NVIDIA Jetson platform used in the delivery robot's onboard computing hardware. This enables hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding, reducing bandwidth and latency needs while boosting video quality.

The partnership allows Serve to enhance its unique autonomy stack, which was designed specifically for neighborhood delivery use cases. With DriveU.auto's connectivity layer, Serve can leverage cloud-based computational resources, accommodate over-the-air updates, and enable remote teleoperation or monitoring when issues arise during autonomous operations.

As a newly public company trading on the Nasdaq, Serve Robotics is under pressure to rapidly achieve profitability at scale with its RaaS model. Partnerships like this latest one with DriveU.auto could prove critical for maintaining a technology edge, ensuring safe and reliable autonomous delivery services, and realizing the immense promised efficiencies of driverless robotic operations.