DoorDash’s delivery robots need a hand.
Some workers in areas where DoorDash is using its Dot delivery robot are receiving offers through the DoorDash app to load them up. While the vehicles can navigate miles to delivery destinations, it’s the few feet between a restaurant’s pickup counter and the curb outside where delivery workers intervene.
Devena Bybee, a DoorDash gig worker in Mesa, Arizona, said that she received one such offer in early July. The company is using the robots to make deliveries in the Phoenix area.
Bybee drove about two miles to a restaurant, picked up an order, and placed it in the Dot robot as it waited in the parking…
