Uber Eats will use Starship robots on the sidewalk to deliver food in the UK

Uber Eats is teaming up with Starship Technologies, a curbside delivery robotics company, to deliver food in the UK starting later this year.

The companies will start the service in the Leeds and Sheffield areas “from selected dealers” in December and expand from there. Uber said the service will expand to “additional European markets in 2026” and the United States in 2027.

The tie-up with Starship is the latest in an increasingly long line of partnerships Uber has struck with self-driving car companies of all shapes and sizes. But Starship isn’t the first curbside robot company to work with Uber Eats. Uber’s food delivery arm used Service Robotics’ robots For a few years in the United States Uber started Using Avride robots on the sidewalk Earlier this year too.

Starship claims to have nearly 3,000 of its six-wheeled delivery robots operating around the world, across more than 270 different locations. The robots typically make deliveries in less than 30 minutes and travel no more than two miles.