Refection AI was founded in 2019 with the goal of using robotics to reduce the cost of last mile delivery. This company doesn't want to be the next ubereats or doordash. Instead, it takes our goods from restaurants, pharmacies, grocery stores and other places, and then takes them directly to your home, so that we can deliver faster, cheaper and safer, and meet the growing expectations of customers.
A year ago, refraction moved its business operations to Austin, Texas, and continued to build personal relationships with the restaurant. During this process, the company learned that although providing customers with preferential delivery rates is still a priority, the really unique selling point of refraction is that it can provide higher quality and scalable services.
Chick-fil-A, a fast-food chain specializing in chicken sandwiches, said on Tuesday that it hired redemption AI to deploy the startup's autonomous vehicle fleet to its two restaurants in downtown Austin, 6th & Congress and Martin Luther King Avenue.
Matthew Johnson Roberson, technical officer and co-founder of refraction, said: "I don't represent [chick-fil-a], but I feel that these experiments are centered on trying to fill some gaps in the current products in the market, and these gaps do not meet the services they are looking for.".
Refraction's first self driving delivery robot Rev-1 is the same size as an electric bicycle. It has three wheels, is 5 feet high (about 1.52 meters), 4.5 feet long (about 1.37 meters), 30 inches wide (about 76.2 cm), weighs about 100 pounds (about 90.7 kilograms), and can reach a speed of 15 miles per hour. It is fast enough and flexible enough to deliver goods in time. Compared with other autonomous vehicle on the road, The shortest stopping distance.
For example, to avoid accidents, Rev-1 stops at a distance of 5 feet (about 1.52 meters), while vehicles of the same size need a distance of 45 feet (about 13.7 meters) to stop at the same speed. The car can hold 16 cubic feet or about 4 or 5 grocery bags. When the goods arrive at the destination, the consignee will receive the SMS verification code for picking up the goods. The company is working with restaurants to test the first application, and the company hopes to expand its business to the last mile delivery service.