Starship Technologies
San Francisco operator of small autonomous sidewalk robots that deliver food and groceries on campuses and in city neighbourhoods.
- Neubility wins Korean sidewalk safety certificates for two new robots as Baemin and Avride hand theirs back
Seoul startup Neubility received outdoor mobile robot operating-safety certificates for two new models, the 20 kg-payload NEUBI FLOW and the 10 kg-payload NEUBI SHIELD, the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement (KIRIA) said in notices posted on Oct 8. Both certificates were first issued on Oct 7; the robots weigh 74 kg and 76.5 kg, top out at 7.2 km/h, climb slopes of up to 15 degrees and are run from Neubility's NCC 1.0 control system, and KIRIA's terms require both to wait for remote approval from the control centre before crossing at a crosswalk without traffic lights. The SHIELD model is also limited to 5.76 km/h on slopes of 10 degrees or more. The approvals came as two rivals gave up theirs: KIRIA posted on Sept 22 that Woowa Brothers, the operator of the Baemin delivery app, had returned the certificate for its dilly X2 delivery robot, and on Oct 2 that Avride Korea had returned the certificate for its R robot, first granted in June 2024. MEKAWIRE's database holds no verified funding round for Neubility, while the latest sidewalk-delivery rounds it records are Starship Technologies' $50 million Series C and Serve Robotics' $100 million registered direct offering, both in October 2025.
Mentioned - DoorDash unveils Dot, an in-house road and sidewalk delivery robot, and an AI dispatcher to run it alongside Dashers
DoorDash on September 30, 2025 introduced Dot, an all-electric delivery robot built by DoorDash Labs that travels up to 20 mph on bike lanes, roads, sidewalks and driveways. Early access starts in Tempe and Mesa, Arizona, with an Autonomous Delivery Platform that assigns each order to a Dasher, Dot, drone or sidewalk robot.
Mentioned - Trump orders a BVLOS drone rule within 30 days and a Buy American push, turning US drone policy from bans into industrial policy
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on June 6, 2025 that direct the FAA to propose a rule for routine beyond visual line of sight drone flights within 30 days and finalise it within 240 days, order agencies to prioritise US-made drones, and tell the Pentagon to widen its Blue UAS list. A companion order creates a federal task force on airspace sovereignty and expands counter-drone powers ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Olympics.
Mentioned - LG Electronics takes 51% of Bear Robotics and hands it the CLOi service robot business, four weeks after Samsung moved on Rainbow
LG Electronics' board voted on 22 January 2025 to exercise a call option for another 30% of Silicon Valley delivery robot maker Bear Robotics, lifting its stake to 51% and making the start-up a subsidiary. LG will move its CLOi commercial robot unit under Bear and keep chief executive John Ha in charge, but has not said what it paid for the second tranche.
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