Robot food delivery pilot program approved by City Council committee

Robotic personal delivery devices described as "beverage coolers on wheels" will soon be delivering more restaurant meals and groceries in and around the campus of the University of Illinois Chicago.

Forging head-first into the future of food delivery, the City Council's Committee on License and Consumer Protection on Thursday approved an ordinance championed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot expanding a year-old, pandemic-inspired pilot that had been confined to just a portion of the UIC campus.

Instead, Starship Technologies was authorized to conduct a two-year pilot in an area bounded by Halsted Street, Ogden Avenue, Roosevelt Road and the Eisenhower Expressway.

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Robot food delivery pilot program gets green light from City Council committee - Chicago Sun-Times

If the full council endorses the plan, a year-old, pandemic-inspired test that has operated on just a portion of the UIC campus would expand to an Halsted Street, Ogden Avenue, Roosevelt Road and the Eisenhower Expressway.

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