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Yandex robot couriers expand to 51 Moscow districts
Yandex’s delivery robots now operate in 51 Moscow districts. The city says more than 400 rovers handle about 1,500 deliveries a day.
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Yandex’s robot couriers are now delivering orders in 51 districts of Moscow, with 31 new districts added to the network. According to Maxim Liksutov, Moscow’s deputy mayor for transport, the city now has more than 400 delivery rovers making roughly 1,500 deliveries per day.
The new areas are being served by a new generation of rovers that Yandex describes as its first mass-produced models. The company says it upgraded the suspension to better handle uneven surfaces and added a more powerful compute module.
Moscow City Hall says the onboard neural network now plans routes more effectively and reads the surrounding environment more accurately. As a result, average delivery times have fallen by about 10%, according to the mayor’s office.
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Compared with other large cities, Moscow’s robotic delivery market remains unusual in scale. Services such as Starship Technologies and Amazon Scout have typically stayed limited to campuses or individual neighborhoods rather than citywide deployments. That makes Moscow, with 400 rovers and 1,500 daily orders, one of the most visible testing grounds for this kind of logistics.
How far the rollout goes next will depend on how quickly the city and the operator can bring additional districts online without navigation issues, while also accounting for weather conditions.
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