DoorDash’s delivery robot isn’t quite ready for prime time.
The delivery service has spent the last several months testing its Dot delivery robot as it makes deliveries in parts of Phoenix, Arizona. And while the company is working on securing permits for Dot to expand to other cities, there’s still a lot that the company needs to figure out before it expands the autonomous delivery option, CEO Tony Xu said on a second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.
“I’m a big believer that you really have to nail something before you scale it,” Xu said.
To make autonomous deliveries work, DoorDash has to correctly estimate how long it will take…
