Uber expanded its cohort of autonomous vehicle partners today with the addition of Avride, formerly known as Yandex Self-Driving Group. The companies signed a “multiyear” agreement in which Uber customers can take rides and accept takeout deliveries from Avride’s autonomous vehicles.

A new joint venture between Uber’s Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery drones and Alphabet’s Wing flying drone service will do a dual test run. Both tech companies hope that flying and sidewalk drones can cover areas its counterpart can’t and speed up delivery times.

Uber Technologies and Avride have announced a multi-year strategic partnership to bring Avride’s delivery robots and autonomous vehicles to Uber and Uber Eats.

After launch, when a consumer requests a qualifying delivery or ride on the Uber Eats or Uber apps, they may be presented with the option to have that trip fulfilled by an Avride delivery robot or autonomous vehicle.

Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) and Avride today announced a multiyear strategic partnership to bring Avride’s delivery robots and autonomous veh

Fast food keeps getting faster. Thanks to a new partnership between California's Serve Robotics and Wing, robots will soon be rolling down Dallas-area sidewalks, taking restaurant orders to be plucked skyward by a hovering Wing drone for deliveries "as much as 6 miles away.

Drones and sidewalk delivery robots promise to make last-mile delivery cheaper and more efficient, but they both have their limitations. Drones have

The Alphabet unit, which started as a project within incubator Google X, has completed more than 400,000 commercial deliveries across three continents, Woodworth added. Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru;

Serve Robotics ($SERV), known for using sidewalk robots to deliver food for Uber Eats ($UBER), announced a pilot partnership with Alphabet-owned