Serve Robotics alternatives

Serve Robotics, headquartered in San Carlos, California and founded in 2017, designs and operates autonomous sidewalk delivery robots for food and retail delivery in United States cities including Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, Atlanta and Chicago, with approximately 380 employees. Buyers comparing service robots usually start with the job site, since a sidewalk, a shop floor and a cleaning route need very different machines. Starship Technologies, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia and founded in 2014, operates small six-wheeled sidewalk delivery robots for groceries, takeaway food and parcels across eight listed countries. Telexistence, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and founded in 2017, builds teleoperated and autonomous robots for retail restocking and logistics, serving Japanese convenience-store chains and logistics operators. Tennant, headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and founded in 1870, builds commercial cleaning equipment including autonomous floor scrubbers, reporting 4632 employees worldwide at the end of 2024. Cleanfix, headquartered in Henau-Uzwil, Switzerland and founded in 1975, is a family-owned maker of professional cleaning machines and autonomous cleaning robots, with around 160 employees and partners in more than 85 countries. Choose Serve Robotics or Starship Technologies for sidewalk delivery, Telexistence for retail restocking, and Tennant or Cleanfix for autonomous cleaning.

Alternatives to Serve Robotics

Starship Technologies

Starship Technologies operates the world’s largest fleet of sidewalk delivery robots. Founded in Tallinn, Estonia, in July 2014, the company built its business around small six-wheeled robots that travel at walking pace to deliver groceries, takeaway food and parcels over the last mile, ordered through its own app or through partner platforms.

Telexistence

TELEXISTENCE Inc. (TX) is a Tokyo robotics company built around the "telexistence" concept — a human operator effectively being present and able to act in a remote location — first proposed in 1980.

Tennant

Tennant Company is an Eden Prairie, Minnesota cleaning-equipment manufacturer founded in 1870, profiled here as one of the largest OEM builders of autonomous floor-cleaning robots.

Cleanfix

Cleanfix Reinigungssysteme AG is a family-owned Swiss manufacturer of professional cleaning machines whose robot line makes it one of the pioneers of autonomous cleaning.

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