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Coco Bot vs Starship Bot in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
On DEPLOY's record, Starship Bot has more verified real-world deployments (41 versus 12) than Coco Bot as of 2026; DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
- Starship Bot has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0).
- Starship Bot has more verified real-world deployments (41 vs 12).
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Coco Robotics | Starship Technologies |
| Form factor | sidewalk | sidewalk |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Autonomy | ◐ not independently verified | ✓ 1 verified autonomous |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | $3,000-$7,000 (analyst estimate) |
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| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 12 | 41 |
| Privacy practices | — | 6bystander-recording, cloud-upload, data-retention, third-party-sharing, location-tracking, data-deletion-control |
| Sources on file | 21 | 66 |
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Editorial summaries
Coco Bot
Coco's Coco Bot is a wheeled sidewalk delivery robot with an insulated cargo compartment for restaurant orders, operating at walking speeds on sidewalks within range of a partner restaurant. There is no consumer price: it is a B2B delivery service (restaurants pay for deliveries), not a robot sold to consumers.
On the operator-supervision-to-autonomy spectrum it sits at the most operator-supervised end: the Coco Bot is teleoperated by remote pilots, not autonomous. From Coco Robotics, it is at commercial maturity.
Starship Bot
Starship Technologies (founded 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis) makes the Starship Bot, a six-wheeled insulated-cargo autonomous sidewalk delivery robot and the captive-service archetype of the sidewalk-delivery cohort. It is operator-supervised Level 4: it runs autonomously on sidewalks with remote human oversight and takeover available, not driverless.
Starship operates its own fleet and integrates with delivery apps (Uber Eats, Just Eat, Bolt, Foodora, Grubhub, Wolt) plus grocers and retailers; it does not sell robots to third parties. Operational scale (April 2026, Starship-direct): more than 10 million cumulative autonomous deliveries, 3,000-plus robots, 300-plus service areas across 8 countries, 65-plus US university campuses, and 22 million-plus autonomous kilometers.
Funding ran through a Series C led by Plural with more than $280 million cumulative; the valuation is not disclosed, so DEPLOY cap-flags aggregator-quoted valuation figures. As a captive B2B delivery service, there is no consumer price.
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Recent coverage
- DoorDash expands sidewalk robot delivery in U.S. with Coco RoboticsCoco Bot · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-06-15
- The backlash over delivery robotsCoco Bot · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-06-15
- Starship Technologies: 10 million autonomous deliveries completedStarship Bot · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-06-15
- Autonomous Mobile Robots: The Future of LogisticsStarship Bot · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-06-15
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