App-based companies have publicly spoken for years about the money-saving potential of autonomous vehicles. What if robots did all the work, or at least some of it? Still, with today’s announcement, DoorDash is throwing its lot into an industry that has faced some choppy waters. Speed BumpsDelivery robots were hyped during the onset of the Covid pandemic as a solution to that other very human problem of contagion. Since then, however, Amazon and FedEx abandoned their delivery robot projects; others working on delivery bots have pivoted to software or industrial uses.