Facts

• Segment: Delivery
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2017
• Website: https://www.serverobotics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

Serve Robotics develops autonomous sidewalk delivery robots for food and local-commerce logistics. Its robots operate in pedestrian environments using onboard perception, remote supervision and fleet software to move small orders between merchants and customers in urban service areas.

Market context

Serve is one of the clearest public examples of deployed sidewalk delivery robotics, with fleets operating through major delivery-platform partnerships. Serve Robotics develops and operates autonomous sidewalk delivery robots for urban last-mile food and goods delivery.

Products

• Serve Delivery Robot (Gen 3)

Facts

• Website: https://www.serverobotics.com/
• HQ: Redwood City, United States
• Founded: 2017
• Ticker: SERV / NASDAQ
• Segment: Delivery
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2021-12-06 - Seed extension - $13M - Serve Robotics raises USD 13M seed extension - source: serverobotics.gcs-web.com

Investors

• 7-Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-12-06
• DX Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-12-06
• Uber - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-12-06
• Wavemaker Labs - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-12-06

Sidewalk delivery robot company

Serve Robotics operates autonomous sidewalk delivery robots for food and local commerce delivery in urban environments.

• Target environment: City sidewalks, restaurant delivery zones, local commerce routes, campus-style areas and urban delivery markets.
• Deployment model: Delivery robot fleet operations through platform partnerships, merchant integrations and managed service areas.
• Customer context: Restaurants, delivery platforms, merchants, urban consumers and local logistics partners.
• Workflow context: Last-mile delivery, sidewalk navigation, merchant pickup, customer drop-off, fleet operations and remote support.
• Commercial maturity: Public delivery robotics company with operating robot fleets and platform partnerships.
• Market position: Sidewalk delivery robotics operator focused on urban food and local-commerce logistics.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on sidewalk permissions, fleet reliability, remote supervision, merchant density, delivery economics and public acceptance.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes sidewalk delivery robots, urban last-mile logistics, food delivery automation and local commerce robotics.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-03 - Deployment - Serve Robotics launches autonomous laundry delivery pilot with NoScrubs in Los Angeles - Serve Robotics partnered with NoScrubs to launch an autonomous laundry delivery pilot in select Los Ange…
• 2026-05-07 - Market Signal - Serve Robotics Q1 update shows multi-domain robot fleet scale after Diligent acquisition - Serve Robotics reported Q1 2026 revenue of $3.0M, up 238% sequentially and 578% year over year.
• 2026-04-07 - Demonstration - Serve Robotics demos Maggie conversational robot at NVIDIA GTC - Maggie uses T-Mobile 5G Advanced and edge computing for low-latency interaction.
• 2026-04-01 - Acquisition - Serve Robotics acquires Phantom Auto and subsidiary Voysys AB - Serve Robotics announced the acquisition of Phantom Auto and its subsidiary Voysys AB.
• 2026-03-18 - Deployment - Serve Robotics launches White Castle delivery on Uber Eats - Serve Robotics launched autonomous sidewalk delivery for White Castle orders through Uber Eats in its service areas
• 2026-01-27 - Acquisition - Serve Robotics Completes $29M Acquisition of Diligent Robotics - • Serve Robotics completed its acquisition of Diligent Robotics on January 27, 2026, in a stock transaction valued at $29 milli…
• 2025-12-12 - Deployment - Serve Robotics deploys 2,000 delivery robots across U.S. cities - • Serve Robotics deployed over 2,000 autonomous delivery robots across multiple U.S.
• 2025-06-26 - Deployment - Serve Robotics and Uber Eats expand robot delivery to Buckhead - • Serve Robotics launched its autonomous delivery robots in Atlanta, including the Buckhead neighborhood, in partnership with Ub…
• 2025-01-07 - Regulatory - Serve Robotics announces $80M registered direct offering - Serve Robotics announced an $80 million registered direct offering of common stock with institutional investors.
• 2024-06-27 - Deployment - Serve Robotics expands delivery operations into Koreatown in Los Angeles - Serve Robotics expanded its live sidewalk delivery operations into Koreatown in Los Angeles as part of its broader U.S…
• 2022-01-11 - Partnership - Ouster and Serve Robotics Sign Multi-Year Strategic Agreement to Support Expansion of Autonomous Delivery Fleets - Ouster and Serve Robotics signed a multi-year strategic agreement for supply…
• 2021-12-06 - Funding - Serve Robotics raises USD 13M seed extension - Participants included Uber, Delivery Hero-backed DX Ventures, 7-Eleven venture arm 7-Ventures and Wavemaker Labs.

Operations / Deployments

• 2026-06-03 - Deployment - Serve Robotics launches autonomous laundry delivery pilot with NoScrubs in Los Angeles - Serve Robotics partnered with NoScrubs to launch an autonomous laundry delivery pilot in select Los Ange…

Team

• Ali Kashani - Co-founder and CEO - His background connects Serve sidewalk delivery robots to last-mile logistics and delivery-platform operations.

Relationships

• Diligent Robotics - subsidiary - Diligent Robotics is a subsidiary of Serve Robotics.
• Diligent Robotics - acquisition - Serve Robotics completed $29M acquisition of Diligent Robotics (Jan 27, 2026).
• acquisition - Serve Robotics has a public acquisition relationship with Phantom Auto.
• acquisition - Serve Robotics has a public acquisition relationship with Voysys AB.
• Delivery platform partner - Delivery platform partner for sidewalk robot deployment in Koreatown (Uber Eats).

Context tags

• Sidewalk delivery network - Stack Layer - Serve operates delivery robots through enterprise delivery networks.
• Robot fleet operations - Capability - Serve has reported large fleet expansion and delivery network operation.
• Sidewalk delivery robotics - Peer Group - Serve builds autonomous sidewalk delivery robots for local food and last-mile delivery.
• Sidewalk last-mile delivery - Workflow - Serve robots deliver food and local goods on sidewalks and short-distance urban routes.
• Sidewalk autonomy - Capability - Serve describes its fleet as Level 4 autonomous in complex urban environments.
• Sidewalks and campuses - Customer Environment - Serve robots operate in sidewalks and urban delivery zones.
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Commercially deployed in multiple US cities
• Last-mile delivery - Workflow - Core product: sidewalk autonomous delivery
• Autonomous navigation - Capability - Autonomous sidewalk navigation and delivery routing
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Builds complete autonomous delivery robot platform
• Service delivery robotics builder - Peer Group - Core peer group: autonomous delivery robotics
• Indoor service delivery - Workflow - Potential indoor delivery and service applications
• Warehouses - Customer Environment - Restaurant and retail delivery supply chain environments

Customers and deployments

• Named Pilot Site - NoScrubs autonomous laundry delivery pilot in Los Angeles - 2026-06-03 - NoScrubs - sidewalk laundry delivery - Serve Robotics launched an autonomous sidewalk laundry delivery pilot with NoScrubs in L…
• Named Customer Rollout - White Castle autonomous delivery on Uber Eats - 2026-03-18 - White Castle / Uber Eats - sidewalk food delivery - Serve Robotics launched autonomous sidewalk delivery for White Castle orders thro…
• Named Commercial Market - delivery operations expanded into Koreatown - 2024-06-27 - Koreatown, Los Angeles - sidewalk delivery operations - Serve Robotics expanded delivery operations into Koreatown in Los Angeles. - s…