DoorDash customers in the Phoenix metro area may have their next meal delivered to their homes not by a Dasher, but a Dot.

The delivery company on Tuesday unveiled a friendly-looking red autonomous delivery bot named Dot, calling it the first such robot with the ability to maneuver within bike lines, on roads and sidewalks, and built expressly for local commerce.

The company touted Dot as a more efficient and economical way of delivering orders of smaller-sized goods, such as toiletries for example, that don't require a vehicle for transport.

"You don't always need a full-sized car to deliver a tube of toothpaste or pack of diapers. That's the insight behind Dot," Stanley Tang, co-founder and head of DoorDash Labs, the robotic solutions arm of the business, said in a statement. "The

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