Starship Technologies has started using ESPROS Photonics Corporation’s epc660 Time-of-Flight chip in its sidewalk delivery robots.

Starship Technologies announced that its expanding its delivery service to residents across Wellingborough, Higham Ferrers and Rushden.

Starship is also closing a number of locations that “do not have the right mix of merchants and customer base to meet our near-term profitability goals.”

Starship plans to use the funding to further R&D and build thousands more robots at the company’s facility in Tallinn, Estonia.