Starship anchors the captive-service corner of DEPLOY's sidewalk-delivery triangle: it operates its own fleet and sells delivery, the contrast to Serve's publicly-traded service and Cartken's hardware-sale pivot. Three business models, one form factor.
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Its operational scale is the strongest in the cohort and Starship-direct (April 2026): more than 10 million cumulative deliveries, 3,000-plus robots, 300-plus service areas across 8 countries, and 22 million-plus autonomous kilometers.
Price
No reviewed price is on record. We do not treat unverified analyst estimates as pricing data. There is no consumer price. Starship runs a captive B2B delivery service: it operates its own fleet and sells delivery, not robots, so DEPLOY records zero price points rather than a consumer figure.
Availability
Internal use only
Starship is a delivery service, not a robot you buy. It operates its own fleet across 8 countries (300-plus service areas, 65-plus US university campuses), integrating with Uber Eats, Just Eat, Bolt, Foodora, Grubhub, and Wolt plus grocers and retailers. It does not sell robots to third parties.
Real-world status
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. Operational scale (April 2026, Starship-direct) is the strongest in the cohort: more than 10 million cumulative autonomous deliveries, 3,000-plus robots, and 22 million-plus autonomous kilometers.
Cap-flags: the Starship Bot is operator-supervised Level 4 (remote human oversight and takeover), not driverless; and while funding exceeds $280M cumulative (Series C led by Plural), the valuation is not disclosed, so valuation figures circulating in aggregators are unverified.
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There is no consumer price. Starship sells delivery service on a captive fleet and does not sell robots to third parties, so DEPLOY records zero price points.
No⊘absence. Starship runs a captive delivery service on its own fleet and does not sell robots to third parties; there is no consumer price.
Is the Starship robot driverless?
No, it is operator-supervised Level 4🟢verified: it runs autonomously on sidewalks with remote human oversight and takeover available.
How many deliveries has Starship made?
More than 10 million cumulative autonomous deliveries (April 2026, Starship-direct)🟢verified, with 3,000-plus robots and 22 million-plus autonomous kilometers.
Where does Starship operate?
Across 8 countries🟢verified, with 300-plus service areas and 65-plus US university campuses.
How does Starship compare to Serve and Cartken?
All three are operator-supervised sidewalk delivery🟢verified; Starship runs a captive service, Serve is the publicly-traded service (NASDAQ: SERV), and Cartken sells hardware to operator partners.
Pricing and availability are tagged verified or claimed against primary sources. Manufacturer targets are reported as targets, not prices you can pay today.