The delivery robots rolling down your sidewalk have cameras, sensors, and a constant need to dodge whatever is in their path. Think fallen e-scooters, construction zones, and tricky curbs. That data gets stored so that other robots know what lies ahead of them—and it’s now going to the world’s most widely used GPS app for blind people so they can better navigate city streets.
Coco Robotics, the Los Angeles–based startup operating roughly 1,000 delivery bots across the United States and Europe, is partnering with BlindSquare to remit real-time sidewalk hazard data directly to visually impaired pedestrians. The partnership, announced today, will go live across all six of Coco’s operating markets: Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and Jersey City in the U.S. and Helsinki and Turku in Finland.
