This week, sidewalk robotic supply startup Starship Applied sciences celebrated the fifth anniversary of its first campus deployment within the US and, as a part of its announcement, gave us a peek into how its fleet has grown over the previous half-decade at George Mason College (Mason).
In accordance with Starship, their robots began rolling round Mason on January 22, 2019. Since then, they’ve grown their fleet from its preliminary 25 robots to 60 and the variety of retailers round campus from 4 to 18. In accordance with Starship, the Mason fleet is the world’s largest sidewalk robotic supply fleet.
Listed below are a number of the stats concerning the Mason deployment despatched to The Spoon:
- Almost 500,000 deliveries have been made.
- The robotic fleet has coated over 474,225 miles.
- A single pupil has made a report 880 orders.
- The most well-liked menu merchandise has been The Unique Double ‘N Fries from Steak’ n Shake, ordered 15,779 occasions.
It’s all fascinating and spectacular in some respects, however I’ve to confess the stat I’m most interested by is the coed who’s ordered utilizing the corporate’s sidewalk robotic 880(!) occasions. I’m uncertain if Starship has a loyalty program, however that’s primarily the sidewalk robotic equal of the airline million-mile membership.
In accordance with the corporate, because it was first deployed at Mason, the Starship fleet noticed its service develop from 25,000 deliveries and 150,000 miles traveled in 2019 to over 2,000 robots, 5 million deliveries accomplished, and over 7 million fleet supply miles traveled.
That it’s a college setting the place Starship has racked up essentially the most miles and has grown its fleet to its largest single deployment makes numerous sense; not solely are college campuses optimized for foot visitors and have comparatively predictable supply locations (dorms, and pupil halls), however additionally they have built-in and receptive buyer populations who frequent the identical areas.
