Coco Robotics launched with Uber Eats in San Jose on April 22, 2026, expanding its autonomous sidewalk delivery service in the United States. The launch adds another city to Coco's operating footprint and puts its low-speed delivery robots into a major food-delivery platform channel.

Coco is a Los Angeles-based sidewalk delivery company founded in 2020 by Zach Rash and Sahil Sharma. The company builds remotely supervised, low-speed delivery robots for local commerce, with a focus on food, grocery, and neighborhood deliveries. Coco says it has completed more than 500,000 zero-emission deliveries across cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Helsinki.

The San Jose launch is a city-level deployment story rather than a broad fleet disclosure. Uber Eats gives Coco access to restaurant demand and ordering flow, while Coco supplies the physical delivery layer for short local trips. The partnership tests whether delivery robots can serve real merchant and consumer workflows in a city known for technology adoption but also complex sidewalks, traffic patterns, curb behavior, and customer expectations.

Sidewalk delivery sits between courier labor, car-based delivery, bike couriers, and drone delivery. The economics depend on dense short trips, predictable operating zones, low intervention rates, battery availability, maintenance, merchant handoff time, and customer willingness to meet a robot at the curb or door. A platform launch can create demand, but the robot system still has to convert that demand into reliable completed deliveries.

Coco's public material frames the San Jose launch as part of a wider U.S. expansion. The company has also discussed Coco 2, its second-generation delivery robot, and has emphasized quieter, lower-emission delivery for dense urban areas. Public material does not disclose the number of robots assigned to San Jose, expected delivery volume, completion rate, teleoperation load, or revenue per robot.

The competitive field includes Serve Robotics, Cartken, Starship Technologies, Kiwibot, Avride, delivery drones from Zipline and Wing, and human courier networks connected to the same food-delivery platforms. Coco's distinction is a sidewalk delivery model paired with platform partnerships and a growing record of completed zero-emission deliveries.

The Uber Eats launch positions Coco around the operating question that decides sidewalk delivery: whether autonomous robots can handle enough short trips at low enough cost to become useful city logistics infrastructure. If San Jose adds reliable order density and repeat merchant use, Coco moves from local robot delivery experiments toward a repeatable platform channel for neighborhood commerce.

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