Today on Equity, Rebecca Bellan caught up with Ali Kashani, co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics, to unpack how Serve is navigating public markets, scaling real-world robotics, and building what it hopes is the future of last-mile delivery.

Listen to the full episode to hear more about:

How Serve went from a lidar-focused startup to a publicly traded company via reverse merger in 2023

What it takes to scale a delivery fleet across cities like L.A., Miami, and Dallas

Why Kashani says Serve’s sidewalk bots collect four times more visual data per day than GPT-4’s vision model

How ground robots and drones might work together to finally crack last-mile logistics

Equity will be back Friday with our weekly news round-up, and special Google I/O coverage from Max. Don’t miss it!

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