Co-op and Starship Technologies have confirmed plans to extend their partnership, adding new robots to take the total fleet to 500 autonomous vehicles across the UK, while launching robotic delivery services in five new towns and cities.

Co-op - the first major UK supermarket to use robots for home delivery - in partnership with Starship Technologies, will increase the robot fleet by over 300 by the end of the year - increasing Co-op’s offer of on-demand convenience and cutting carbon emissions on last mile deliveries.

The robots are expected to be making deliveries in five new towns and cities, with Cambridgeshire the next location after Co-op and Starship first launched the emission-free autonomous delivery service in Milton Keynes in 2018, and Northampton in 2020.