Serve Robotics acquires Vayu Robotics to enhance delivery robots

Serve Robotics Inc., a developer of sidewalk delivery robots, has acquired Vayu Robotics, a company specializing in large-scale AI models for urban robot deployment. This acquisition aims to enhance Serve’s physical AI capabilities by integrating its autonomy stack and real-world sidewalk data with Vayu’s AI foundation models and scalable simulation-powered data engine. The combined technology is expected to enable safer, faster, and more adaptable navigation for delivery robots, facilitating Serve’s expansion into new markets and use cases. Serve Robotics, which launched a delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and has completed tens of thousands of deliveries for partners like Uber Eats and 7-Eleven, plans to leverage this acquisition to accelerate its goal of reducing delivery costs to $1. The company holds scalable multi-year contracts, including deploying up to 2,000 robots on Uber Eats across multiple U.S. cities. Vayu’s CEO Anand Gopalan highlighted the synergy between Vayu’s AI expertise and Serve’s operational scale and cost focus, positioning Serve