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Singer: Autonomous delivery could become default in big cities within two years
“You know, if you're in the big cities, I think, you know, hopefully for us right in the span of a year, maybe two. But you know, I tend to be aggressive on that front, but I think it really depends on, on kind of which markets you're in as that kind of rolls o…”
Singer: Coco is the only robot delivery company partnering with Uber, DoorDash
“We're kind of the only company that's partnered with Uber, DoorDash, and a bunch of other partners that we're kind of announcing soon.”
Singer: Delivery economics depend heavily on high reliability to avoid refund costs
“The delivery business is a logistics business, and it's all in that 98th, 99th percentile, right? If every single time you mess up an order, right, human or robot or otherwise that is incredibly expensive, right? To the merchant, which might have, you know, a …”
Singer: Robot delivery is already the norm for many Santa Monica residents
“I mean, I think it looks really lopsided, right? Like if you're on the west coast, like if you're in LA, like if you talk to people in Santa Monica, like this is their norm, like to a lot of people that get predominantly robots.”
Singer: Coco delivery robots face almost zero vandalism or interference
“There really is, you know, basically almost no incidents of vandalism or kind of people interfering with the robots because there is this like almost adoration.”
Singer: Coco's robots were initially teleoperated before rolling out autonomy piecemeal
“The robots were kind of human operated entirely for a long time. And as you kind of roll out autonomy, right. You're able to do that piecemeal while kind of maintaining that high quality service bar.”