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Business | Pavement pioneers<br>Robots could soon be delivering your pizza<br>An Estonian startup says its machines are now cheaper than human couriers<br>Share
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Jun 7th 2026|Milton Keynes|3 min read
If you live in San Francisco, you may often get a glimpse of the future—commuting in a self-driving taxi, say. In Milton Keynes? Not so much. But the English city, halfway between Oxford and Cambridge and best known for an abundance of roundabouts, is the place to go if you want to see a world without delivery drivers. It is one of the largest markets for Starship Technologies, an Estonian startup which claims to have cracked the problem of getting robots to deliver groceries more cheaply than people can.
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