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<\/p>\nRobots could soon be delivering takeout in Downtown Vancouver if city council approves the pilot project.<\/p>\n
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In 2022, robots<\/a> Hugo, Raja and Angie briefly delivered for Pizza Hut in Vancouver\u2019s West End<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, new and improved versions could be back after trials in California.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you go down to L.A. as the first market that, you know, we\u2019ve now spent quite a few years, I think what you would be surprised with the most is how normal this is,\u201d Ali Kashani, the founder of Serve Robotics, said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just part of the fabric of life there, the robots are doing their thing, you know, most people are completely indifferent.\u201d<\/p>\n Kashani is from Vancouver, and his early interest in engineering and robot development began there.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Last year, the company expanded to 20 U.S. cities, partnering with 3,500 restaurants.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories.<\/p>\n Kashani assures everyone that robots will not replace human workers.<\/p>\n \u201cOur robots can\u2019t do all their deliveries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey do deliveries that are short distance in very dense urban environments with a lot of parking issues and traffic issues. These are not very desirable deliveries for gig workers.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:13 \n\t\t\tMore on Economy The company needs approval from Vancouver\u2019s city council for a six-month pilot project.<\/p>\n Councillor Mike Klassen said he will introduce the motion this week, saying it could drive economic development.<\/p>\n \u201cVancouver wants to be seen as a city that embraces innovation and new technology and I think that this could be a way for us to be leaders in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Kashani said that 99.8 per cent of robot deliveries are successful.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting for robots to show up in our lives for so long, in \u2026 sci-fi movies or whatever. I think it\u2019s a missed opportunity for us not to have a little bit of fun as we are doing this and make this something that people actually want to see around them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n If approved on Wednesday, the robots could start deliveries downtown and in Kitsilano in the fall.<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robots could soon be delivering takeout in Downtown Vancouver if city council approves the pilot project. In 2022,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,46,241310,22911,55],"class_list":["post-649294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-robot-deliveries","tag-robots","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Get](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\")
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