Starship Bot

Starship Bot is the six-wheeled autonomous sidewalk delivery robot of Starship Technologies, founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla, who is also chief executive, and Janus Friis, with headquarters in San Francisco and engineering hubs in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland. The robot carries an insulated cargo compartment and navigates sidewalks at low speed using multi-sensor fusion of cameras, radar, ultrasonics, and GPS, operating as an operator-supervised Level 4 system: it drives autonomously with remote human oversight and takeover available rather than being driverless, a distinction the registry preserves against Starship's own marketing of Level 4 autonomy without active human supervision. Starship runs a captive operator-supervised service model, operating its own fleet and selling the delivery backbone to apps, retailers, and campuses rather than selling robots to third parties, integrating with platforms such as Uber Eats, Just Eat, Bolt, Foodora, Grubhub, and Wolt. As of Starship's own April 2026 disclosure it had passed ten million cumulative autonomous deliveries with more than three thousand robots across more than three hundred service areas in eight countries: the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, and the United States, with more than sixty-five US university campuses as its anchor segment; Denmark, sometimes listed in priors, is not among them. It remains privately held, having closed a fifty-million-dollar Series C led by Plural in October 2025 that brought cumulative funding above two hundred eighty million dollars, with no valuation disclosed by the company.

Starship Bot is listed at $3,000 to $7,000 on the DEPLOY registry. This is an analyst estimate, not an official price.

Yes. Starship Bot is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Yes. DEPLOY independently verifies Starship Bot performing Delivers packages autonomously, with no human in the loop.

Starship Bot's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Battery: 1260 Wh; Runtime: 12 h; Max speed: 6 km/h; Weight: 35 kg; Payload: 10 kg. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

Starship Bot is made by Starship Technologies, based in San Francisco, CA, founded in 2014.

41 verified deployments of Starship Bot are on the DEPLOY registry, including at Hamburg, Germany, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Starship Bot is in commercial deployment and is sold to operators; contact the manufacturer to buy, and see the pricing section for any recorded price.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable sidewalk robots to Starship Bot include Serve Gen 3, Avride delivery robot, Starship Delivery Robot, Kiwibot 4.0.

Starship Bot and Serve Gen 3 (Serve Robotics · 29 deployments) are both sidewalk robots on the DEPLOY registry. Starship Bot has 41 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Starship Bot ranks in roughly the top 9% of sidewalk models tracked by the registry.

Starship Bot is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.

Starship Bot has 9 active incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. 9 incidents on record (5 serious, 2 moderate, 2 minor). Most recent: Jul 2026. Retracted incidents are excluded from this count.

Starship charges approximately $1.99 per delivery as a consumer-facing fee. The company states autonomous delivery already costs $3-4 less than traditional rider delivery, with a long-term target of approximately $1 per drop. Starship robots are 99% autonomous and operate at SAE Level 4. Over 10 million deliveries have been completed.