Robot mail: Russian Post teams up with Yandex to deliver parcels in Moscow


FILE PHOTO Yandex.Rover a driverless robot for delivering hot restaurant meals is seen at a business district in Moscow Russia December 10 2020. REUTERSEvgenia Novozhenina

FILE PHOTO: Yandex.Rover, a driverless robot for delivering hot restaurant meals, is seen at a business district in Moscow, Russia December 10, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Self-driving robots have started delivering parcels in certain Moscow neighbourhoods after tech giant Yandex teamed up with the state-run Russian Post service, the companies said on Monday.

Yandex, which operates a raft of services from online search to ride-hailing, already uses robots for food delivery in Russia and on some U.S. college campuses in a partnership with GrubHub, but a tie-up with the federal post service could widen their reach.

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