At Lucky California grocery store in Pleasanton, the business has introduced robots to deliver food to the local residents.

“For about 3 weeks we have been operating with these robots so my job is to go around the store and fill out the orders then put the food in the robots and send them off to the correct home,” said Lucky California employee Kaye.

Apps like Uber eats and Doordash have boosted in popularity in the past few months because people want to order at home and now, they can even order simple groceries like milk or eggs wherever.

“These robots are really a great idea because many people come to Luckys just for a few items that they might need like milk, water, or even something more simple like napkins and now they don’t have to worry about going out to do that,” said Kaye.

Robotic delivery seems like an expensive job, but it really isn’t at Lucky California. The first delivery can be as low as $1.99 and it only goes up slightly each delivery going up to a max of only about 5 dollars which is cheap, as it doesn’t change for the number of groceries.

“The robots can hold up to about 20 pounds or 3 bags and if you have more than 3 bags or 20 pounds then we will send 1 robot for free to carry the extra bag and they are on a 2-mile radius for now so if your home is within 2 miles then they will deliver to you. They are only 2 dollars for your first order but the price does go up slightly for your next few orders,” said Lucky employee Keith.

Being able to stay inside and order food from a restaurant has already been around thanks to apps like Doordash but now, Starship Robotics is paving the way for other stores to deliver via robots. 

“I like the idea of robot deliveries for lucky. I feel like at 9 PM or the middle of the night and you just want milk or chips or something, you just order a robot to go get it for you and you don’t even have to leave your couch. I like the fact that we are developing as a human race and we could order things without even leaving,” said Alex Klokkenga (‘25).

Starship Robotics is opening a whole new world of shopping one robot at a time, This isn’t going to be the end of robotic help in stores.

“I cannot wait for the future of grocery stores and what these robots are going to do for many different stores. I feel like a lot of people are going to be scared about robots taking jobs but I feel as long as it doesn’t get out of hand then it would be more cool and convenient than scary,” said Klokkenga (‘25).