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Your DoorDash deliverer could soon look a little different.

DoorDash on Tuesday announced a robot, known as Dot, that navigates busy streets, parking lots and sidewalks to bring customers their food.

Dot marks DoorDash's first official standalone push into autonomous vehicle technology. The company previously tested drone delivery and partnered with Sam Altman -backed startup Coco Robotics for sidewalk delivery .

"The scale and complexity of the business demands something like autonomy, and there isn't anything out there that fits our use case," DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang told CNBC.

Tang, who leads the DoorDash Labs automation and robotics unit, said Dot is a solution to increasingly complex

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