Meet Dot, the 5ft delivery bot already rolling around Phoenix streets
Published on Oct 01, 2025 at 9:09 AM (UTC+4)
by Claire Reid
Last updated on Oct 01, 2025 at 1:30 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Kate Bain
DoorDash has introduced a new 5-foot-tall delivery robot named Dot, and it’s already in use in Phoenix, Arizona.
The company unveiled the cute-looking red robot alongside its new Autonomous Delivery Platform.
Dot is around one-tenth the size of a car and is able to travel on bike lanes, roads, sidewalks, and driveways.
And the autonomous bot has already been unleashed on the streets of Phoenix.
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DoorDash has welcomed Dot the autonomous bot
Autonomous delivery robots are nothing new; tech company Starship launched its first bots back in 2014, while Avride recently partnered with Uber Eats.
Now, DoorDash has stepped into the arena with its Dot autonomous delivery bot.
The company says Dot is designed for quick deliveries and engineered for safety, with a top speed of 20mph.
The robot is all-electric, offers up to six hours of travel per charge, and can carry up to 30 pounds of cargo – more than enough for your Friday night takeaway.
The company says its size makes it perfect for smaller, local deliveries, and that it offers ‘secure, agile item handoffs’.
“You don’t always need a full-sized car to deliver a tube of toothpaste or a pack of diapers. That’s the insight behind Dot,” DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang said in a statement.
“Dot is purpose-built for the millions of deliveries we facilitate every day. It is small enough to navigate doorways and driveways, fast enough to maintain food quality, and smart enough to optimize the best routes for delivery.”
Dot has already been launched in Phoenix, following an early access program in Tempe and Mesa.
But it could be headed to a street near you pretty soon, with Tang telling Wired that the company ‘definitely wants to get this to as many places as we can’.
Drones are also coming to DoorDash
Unveiling the new bot, DoorDash also announced its new Autonomous Delivery Platform: an AI dispatcher, it says will ‘help orchestrate different types of deliveries’.
The company says that when an order is received, the platform will be able to consider a bunch of factors, including speed, location, and cost.
It will then match each order to an appropriate delivery method, whether that’s a Dasher, a Dot on the road, a drone in the air, or a sidewalk robot’.
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Claire Reid is a journalist who hails from the UK but is now living in New Zealand. She began her career after graduating with a degree in Journalism from Liverpool John Moore’s University and has more than a decade of experience, writing for both local newspapers and national news sites. Claire covers a wide variety of topics, with a special focus on cars, technology, planes, cryptocurrency, and luxury.
