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What the Starship Bot knows about you
Starship Bot is the six-wheeled autonomous sidewalk delivery robot of Starship Technologies, founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla, who is also chief executive, and Janus Friis, with headquarters in San Francisco and engineering hubs in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland. The robot carries an insulated cargo compartment and navigates sidewalks at low speed using multi-sensor fusion of cameras, radar, ultrasonics, and GPS, operating as an operator-supervised Level 4 system: it drives autonomously with remote human oversight and takeover available rather than being driverless, a distinction the registry preserves against Starship's own marketing of Level 4 autonomy without active human supervision. Starship runs a captive operator-supervised service model, operating its own fleet and selling the delivery backbone to apps, retailers, and campuses rather than selling robots to third parties, integrating with platforms such as Uber Eats, Just Eat, Bolt, Foodora, Grubhub, and Wolt. As of Starship's own April 2026 disclosure it had passed ten million cumulative autonomous deliveries with more than three thousand robots across more than three hundred service areas in eight countries: the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, and the United States, with more than sixty-five US university campuses as its anchor segment; Denmark, sometimes listed in priors, is not among them. It remains privately held, having closed a fifty-million-dollar Series C led by Plural in October 2025 that brought cumulative funding above two hundred eighty million dollars, with no valuation disclosed by the company.
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What it collects about you
Where your data goes
What you can control
What it collects about you
The data this device picks up.
People around you
Starship robots use 12 cameras and multiple sensors to navigate sidewalks autonomously, capturing images of pedestrians; the company states it does not need or wish to proactively identify individuals, uses fixed cameras showing only knee-level and below, and applies obfuscation techniques to minimize incidental recording of identifiable people.
Your location
Starship collects user location to show nearby merchants and deliver to the specified address; the robots necessarily track their own GPS location for autonomous navigation and delivery operations.
Where your data goes
Who else can see it once it leaves the device.
Sent to the cloud
Starship robots record images and video footage onto the robot's hard drive; selected sections of the recording may be uploaded to Starship servers for mapping, software testing, incident analysis, and safety improvement, with all data stored within the EU.
Shared with others
Starship may share limited data collected from its robots with law enforcement officials in situations involving prevention or detection of a crime, subject to applicable law and Starship policy; the company uses PCI-DSS certified third-party partners for payment processing and Veriff for age verification including ID documents and face scans.
What you can control
Your say over the data it holds.
How long they keep it
Recordings stored on robot hard drives are deleted after 30 days, usually sooner; most images uploaded to Starship servers are deleted after 90 days, though a small minority may be retained longer for drivable maps or further analysis.
Deleting your data
Users have the right to request deletion of personal data by clicking a Request to delete my info link; the privacy policy provides GDPR-compliant data subject rights including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, and portability.
The full record
- Specs
- Starship Bot: six-wheeled insulated-cargo autonomous sidewalk delivery robot at low speed (~4 mph, legacy spec) with multi-sensor fusion (cameras + radar + ultrasonics + GPS; lidar on some configs). Operator-supervised Level 4 on sidewalks: runs autonomously with remote human oversight/takeover available. Operational scale (Apr 2026, Starship-direct): 10M+ cumulative autonomous deliveries, 3,000+ robots, 300+ service areas across 8 countries, 65+ US university campuses, 22M+ autonomous km, ~125,000 road crossings/day. Captive operator-supervised SERVICE model: Starship operates its own fleet and integrates with delivery apps (Uber Eats, Just Eat, Bolt, Foodora, Grubhub, Wolt) plus grocers/retailers; does NOT sell robots to third parties.
- Form Factor
- sidewalk (six-wheeled operator-supervised L4 sidewalk delivery robot; captive delivery-service model)