Uber Eats starts robot deliveries in Tokyo

A restaurant worker places an order in the container of an Uber Eats food delivery robot during its demonstration for media in Tokyo on March 5, 2024. - AP

TOKYO: "Caution: robot!" chirps the green self-driving delivery vehicle as it trundles down the street to a pork cutlet restaurant in Tokyo to pick up a meal ordered on Uber Eats.

Starting Wednesday (March 6), robot deliveries will be offered in a small area of the city by the US-based food app, which hopes to eventually roll out the service more widely in Japan.