Uber made the disclosure in a regulatory filing that was first reported by Bloomberg. Uber's exit from Serve Robotics has been brewing for at least a year, according to regulatory filings that show the company reduced its stake in 2025. Still, the final selloff came as a surprise to Serve, which learned about it once it was officially disclosed, according to a source familiar with the events. Uber could not be immediately reached for comment. Serve got its start as Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup Postmates that Uber acquired in 2020 for $2.65 billion. A year later, the division spun out as an independent company called Serve Robotics, a name taken from the autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X. Uber not only backed Serve, it also struck a partnership with the sidewalk delivery robot firm in 2022. The companies expanded that partnership in May 2023 to deploy up to 2,000 of Serve's sidewalk bots onto Uber's...
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