Your 2am Ben & Jerry’s might soon be delivered by what looks like the love child of Wall-E and Lightning McQueen. This week, DoorDash unveiled an intentionally adorable delivery robot named Dot, which it’s piloting in the Phoenix area, with plans for a wide rollout in the metro area by the year’s end.
The anthropomorphic food box on wheels is DoorDash’s first foray into ground-based autonomous delivery—a frontier many companies have struggled to conquer due to the challenge of navigating chaotic streets without angering pedestrians.
