Sidewalk robots are set to help some of their airborne counterparts with deliveries in Dallas under an agreement between key players in the industry. Serve Robotics, which develops automated four-wheeled machines,

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.

DALLAS — Sidewalk robots are set to help their drone counterparts with deliveries in Dallas as part of a new pilot partnership. Serve Robotics, a spinoff from Uber that develops the automated four-wheel machines is partnering with Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet that already provides drone delivery services in DFW.

The Alphabet unit, which started as a project within incubator Google X, has completed more than 400,000 commercial deliveries across three continents, Woodworth added. Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru;

Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats using sidewalk robots, said it would partner with Alphabet-owned Wing Aviation to use drones, extending the operational range to more than six miles.

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