page_title: Starship Technologies
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Starship Technologies / Operations
caption_attribution_description: English: A Starship Robot operating in the Winter. Salt can be seen on the tires. The Bowling Green State University Business building is located to the left of the photographer.
context_page_description: Starship Technologies is a company developing small self-driving robotic delivery vehicles. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with engineering operations in Tallinn, Estonia, and a satellite team in Helsinki, Finland. Starship also has offices in London, UK, Germany, Washington, DC and Mountain View, California.
context_section_description: Starship develops and operates the last mile delivery robots. The electric-powered robots ride on sidewalks at a pedestrian speed, with a max speed of 6 kilometres per hour (3.7 mph), can be remote-controlled if autonomous operation fails, and will only be used for relatively short-range local delivery. The robots use feature detection of edges and mapping techniques to determine the suitability of navigable terrain. The robot weighs 55 pounds (25 kg) unloaded, and can hold up to 20 pounds (9.1 kg) of deliveries. The robots are equipped with a sensor suite that includes cameras, GPS inertial measurement unit, ultrasonic sensors, radar, and possibly also other sensors but notably no lidar. The robots have speakers, so they can communicate with humans they meet.
  The service has been tested in over 100 cities and 20 countries around the world. The company operates in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Estonia. It has announced plans to expand its service to 100 university campuses in the United States, with the goal of reaching one million students.
caption: A close up of a Starship delivery robot operating in the winter, with its camera array visible
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