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Just Eat Takeaway.com, in partnership with Swiss robotics firm RIVR, is piloting Europe’s first walking delivery robots in Zurich that use Physical AI to navigate stairs, curbs, and all weather while delivering food.
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Just Eat tests Europe’s first walking delivery robots in Zurich

22 August 2025
@telezuri_fernandez Europaweite Neuheit in Zürich. In Oerlikon bringt ein Roboter das Essen. Auch Zeki hat Freude am technischen Helfer. Es läuft eine Testphase, aktuell wird der Roboter von einem Menschen begleitet. #roboter #zürich #züri #oerlikon #kreis11 ♬ Originalton - TeleZüri Fernandez

🤖🎶 Title: “Walking Dreams: From Jungbusch to Zurich’s Robots”

Zoë Më’s “Jungbusch” reflects on longing, memory, and the unstoppable flow of time, while Just Eat’s walking delivery robots in Zurich embody a different kind of future—where technology moves steadily into our everyday lives. The song’s river metaphor, carrying dreams away, resonates with the way innovation carries society forward, sometimes leaving nostalgia behind. Just as Jungbusch symbolizes a place of belonging and change, Zurich’s streets now host robots that redefine connection and delivery, showing how human emotion and technological progress both reshape the rhythms of our cities.

🎶 🤖☀️⚡🧀🌍🚶‍♂️🍔📦🎵🔥🌅🇨🇭 🔊 Jungbusch - Zoë Më



Food delivery is stepping into a new era. Just Eat Takeaway.com has begun testing Europe’s first walking delivery robots in Zurich, marking a milestone in automation.

Partnering with Swiss robotics firm RIVR, the company is exploring how Physical AI can make urban deliveries faster, safer, and more efficient.

🚶‍♂️ How the Robots Work

Unlike traditional wheeled robots, these machines combine wheels for speed with legs for agility. They can climb stairs, cross curbs, and move at speeds of up to 15 km/h. Each robot carries up to 40 liters of food, with an internal divider to prevent spillage. Orders are placed into the robot at the restaurant and unlocked by customers upon arrival, ensuring secure handovers.

🌧️ All-Weather Performance

Designed for real urban environments, the robots can operate in rain, snow, heat, or wind. Equipped with lights and a flag for visibility, they are monitored in real time from a remote operations center. In emergencies, they can stop automatically or be halted remotely, ensuring safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles.

⚡ Innovation and Vision

Zornitsa Chugreeva, Senior Global Innovation Director at Just Eat Takeaway.com, explained that automation is central to the company’s vision of “empowering everyday convenience.” By integrating robotics into daily operations, Just Eat aims to enhance customer experience while reducing delivery costs. RIVR’s CEO Marko Bjelonic added that Physical AI allows robots to adapt naturally to human environments, making autonomous delivery intuitive and safe.

🌍 Future Expansion

The Zurich pilot is just the beginning. Just Eat plans to expand robotic deliveries to other European cities and extend the technology to retail and convenience store deliveries. This follows earlier drone delivery tests in Ireland, showing the company’s commitment to exploring multiple automation pathways.

#RobotDelivery 🤖 #SmartCity 🌍 #FoodTech 🍔 #UrbanInnovation 🚶‍♂️ #FutureLogistics 📦

Data Delivery

Robots Deliver Data, Not Just Food🤖🍔
The real breakthrough isn’t just that the robots can walk—it’s that they’re designed to collect urban mobility data while delivering food. Each trip generates information about pedestrian flows, curb heights, stair usage, and weather impacts on movement. This data can quietly become more valuable than the deliveries themselves, because it can be sold or shared with city planners, insurers, and even retailers to optimize logistics and urban design. In other words, the pilot is not only about testing convenience—it’s also about building a new layer of urban intelligence infrastructure under the guise of food delivery.

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