Serve Robotics adds Grubhub to its delivery network and expands to eight US metros

Serve Robotics announced a new delivery partnership with Grubhub on Monday, bringing its autonomous sidewalk delivery robots to the food delivery platform starting in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, Virginia. The deal makes Grubhub — a subsidiary of Wonder — the latest major delivery platform to join Serve's robot network, alongside its existing partnerships with DoorDash and Uber Eats.

A Broader Expansion Push, Not Just One Deal

The Grubhub partnership is one piece of a larger announcement. Serve also confirmed it has launched service in Washington, DC and San Jose, California — its seventh and eighth major US markets — both through its existing DoorDash partnership. Together, the two new metros bring roughly 8 million additional people into Serve's delivery coverage area, joining existing service in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Miami.

In Chicago, more than 100 Grubhub merchants are participating in the initial rollout; Los Angeles launches with nearly 200. At Wonder's Alexandria location, Grubhub customers will be able to receive eligible orders through Serve's robot network as well.

Infrastructure Built for Faster Expansion

Serve is also changing how it scales into new cities. The company is preparing to open its first "micro depot" in Miami — a small-footprint operating site that handles robot staging, charging, dispatch, and maintenance without the longer build-out time a full-scale facility requires. Serve says the micro-depot model needs minimal infrastructure and can be set up quickly in high-demand neighborhoods, giving it a repeatable playbook for entering new markets faster than its existing facility-based approach allows.

Beyond Sidewalks: Hospitals and Advertising

The same announcement bundle included updates outside food delivery. Diligent Robotics, a Serve subsidiary, has begun rolling out Moxi 2.0, a next-generation hospital robot, to health systems nationwide. Serve also previewed Beacon, a new countertop device meant to let any restaurant connect to its robot delivery network without deeper integration work, and introduced "Characters" — an interactive advertising format built on the robots themselves, with the first character, "Chomp," developed in partnership with Grubhub.

Why the Grubhub Deal Matters More Than the City List

Adding a fourth major delivery platform is arguably more consequential for Serve's business than the two new cities. More order volume flowing through the existing fleet means higher utilization without proportionally more robots or delivery zones — the efficiency lever that ultimately determines whether autonomous delivery becomes profitable at scale rather than just geographically widespread. Serve has been explicit that scaling isn't only about more robots on more sidewalks; it's about extracting more value from the fleet and infrastructure already deployed, and a fourth demand source is a direct lever on that goal.