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Fri Mar 4, 2022, 12:45 PM Mar 2022

BREAKING: UA Student Unions ends partnership with Yandex

UA students will say goodbye to their beloved food delivery robots


University of Arizona students must part with the food delivery robots they’ve grown accustomed to seeing rolling around campus.

Arizona Student Unions announced on Instagram that it will no longer be doing business with Yandex, the Russian technology company that manufactures and services the fully autonomous food delivery robots, which were introduced to campus in November 2021.

“Due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Arizona Student Unions and Arizona Dining will cease doing business with Yandex, a Russian multi-national public traded company and the hardware provider of the robot couriers on campus, as of today, March 3, 2022,” the Student Unions said in the caption of the post.

The post also noted that the Student Unions is working with Grubhub to “secure a new robot delivery solution in the coming weeks.”


https://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2022/03/n-yandex-robots-and-sanctions
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