DoorDash just unveiled new delivery service offerings, the most notable of which is an AI-powered anthropomorphic robot named Dot.

Dot is touted as both agile and fast — traveling up to 20 m.p.h. — and is already deployed in the greater Phoenix area. (Meanwhile, in L.A., a non-DoorDash delivery robot recently crashed into a disabled person in a wheelchair .) The robot is electric and one-tenth the size of a car, and DoorDash touts it as an environmentally friendly alternative to car-based deliveries. Dot's deftness means it can travel to the front doors of many homes, apartments, and office buildings, according to the company.

"You don’t always need a full-sized car to deliver a tube of toothpaste or pack of diapers," Stanley Tang, cofounder and head of DoorDash Labs, said in a state

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