“The needs of people on corporate campuses are very different,” Heinla said. In 2018, Starship co-founder Ahti Heinla seemingly told The Robot Report college and corporate campuses were a more sustainable approach. It came as quite a surprise because in February 2022, the companies announced the robot delivery service was being expanded to another location.Ī post shared by Broad Branch Market has added its delivery robots to a growing list of college and corporate campuses, which could be a more profitable, controllable environment for the robots. One of those shuttered locations is Save Mart’s flagship store in Modesto, California. “In addition to the staff impacted by these decisions, we are also reducing the team at the corporate level.” “The locations that we must close do not have the right mix of merchants and customer base to meet our near-term profitability goals,” the company said. According to Digi Geenius, an Estonian news outlet, Starship also laid off a number of employees in March 2020, which is when the COVID-19 pandemic started to impact the world. It said all of the changes focus on cost savings and improving profitability. On top of the layoffs, Starship is closing a small number of unnamed service locations in the U.S. While it’s unclear exactly how many employees Starship has, a LinkedIn search finds 622 people list Starship as their current employer. The company, which has engineering headquarters in Estonia and business headquarters in San Francisco, said it has been negatively impacted by the “dramatic downward shifts” in the global economy and investment market. Starship Technologies, one of the earlier companies to enter the outdoor robot delivery market, recently laid off 11% of its global workforce.
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