Uber expanded its cohort of autonomous vehicle partners today with the addition of Avride, formerly known as Yandex Self-Driving Group. The companies signed a “multiyear” agreement in which Uber customers can take rides and accept takeout deliveries from Avride’s autonomous vehicles.

A new joint venture between Uber’s Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery drones and Alphabet’s Wing flying drone service will do a dual test run. Both tech companies hope that flying and sidewalk drones can cover areas its counterpart can’t and speed up delivery times.

Drones and sidewalk delivery robots promise to make last-mile delivery cheaper and more efficient, but they both have their limitations. Drones have

Fast food keeps getting faster. Thanks to a new partnership between California's Serve Robotics and Wing, robots will soon be rolling down Dallas-area sidewalks, taking restaurant orders to be plucked skyward by a hovering Wing drone for deliveries "as much as 6 miles away.

Though not exactly commonplace quite yet, rolling robots have been delivering goods to local customers for a while now. At the same time, packages have been flying overhead by drone. Now Serve Robotics and Wing Aviation are ready to merge the two.

A new joint venture between Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery robots and Alphabet’s Wing flying drone service will do a dual test run. Both tech companies hope that flying and sidewalk drones can cover areas its counterpart can’t and speed up delivery times.

In the coming months, select Wing deliveries will be picked up by a Serve robot from a restaurant curbside and delivered to a Wing drone AutoLoader a few blocks away for aerial delivery to customers.

Serve Robotics has announced a pilot partnership with Wing Aviation to expand the range of its autonomous food delivery without requiring restaurants to install new equipment to accommodate drone pickups.

Serve Robotics ($SERV), known for using sidewalk robots to deliver food for Uber Eats ($UBER), announced a pilot partnership with Alphabet-owned