![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milton Keynes</span> City in Buckinghamshire, England](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/MiltonKeynesChristtheCornerstone01.jpg/320px-MiltonKeynesChristtheCornerstone01.jpg)
Milton Keynes is a city in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was 264,349. The River Great Ouse forms the northern boundary of the urban area; a tributary, the River Ouzel, meanders through its linear parks and balancing lakes. Approximately 25% of the urban area is parkland or woodland and includes two Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs).
Janus Friis is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B. Friis has maintained ownership interest in Skype through Silver Lake Partners, which sold Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion, in May 2011.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jaan Tallinn</span> Estonian programmer and investor](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Jaan_Tallinn.jpg/320px-Jaan_Tallinn.jpg)
Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian billionaire computer programmer and investor known for his participation in the development of Skype and file-sharing application FastTrack/Kazaa.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milton Keynes redway system</span> Shared path network in Milton Keynes, England](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Fomer_Bradwell_Halt%2C_July_2009.JPG/320px-Fomer_Bradwell_Halt%2C_July_2009.JPG)
The Milton Keynes redway system is an over 200 miles network of shared use paths for cyclists and pedestrians in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is generally surfaced with red tarmac, and criss-crosses most of the city.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milton Keynes City Council</span> Unitary authority in England](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Arms-milton-k.jpg)
Milton Keynes City Council is the local authority of the City of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It has both borough status and city status. The borough, which extend beyond the ONS-defined Milton Keynes urban area and encompasses a substantial rural component, is divided into 19 wards, electing 57 councillors.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Delivery robot</span> Autonomous robot for "last mile" delivery](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/MGL0050.jpg/320px-MGL0050.jpg)
A delivery robot is an autonomous robot that provides "last mile" delivery services. An operator may monitor and take control of the robot remotely in certain situations that the robot cannot resolve by itself such as when it is stuck in an obstacle. Delivery robots can be used in different settings such as food delivery, package delivery, hospital delivery, and room service.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Co-op Food</span> British brand of consumer co-operative supermarkets](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Co-op_Old_Street%2C_Shoreditch%2C_rebranding_launch_by_The_Co-operative_Group.jpg/320px-Co-op_Old_Street%2C_Shoreditch%2C_rebranding_launch_by_The_Co-operative_Group.jpg)
Co-op Food is a brand used for the food retail business of The Co-operative Group in the United Kingdom.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ahti Heinla</span> Estonian programmer and businessman](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Ahti_Heinla_at_the_Opinion_Festival_2022_in_Paide%2C_Estonia.jpg/320px-Ahti_Heinla_at_the_Opinion_Festival_2022_in_Paide%2C_Estonia.jpg)
Ahti Heinla is an Estonian computer programmer and businessman. He is one of the developers of Skype.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Waymo</span> Autonomous car technology company](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Waymo_logo.svg/320px-Waymo_logo.svg.png)
Waymo LLC, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Last mile (transportation)</span> Last leg of the movement of people or goods from hubs](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Capital_Bikeshare_DC_2010_10_532.JPG/320px-Capital_Bikeshare_DC_2010_10_532.JPG)
In supply chain management and transportation planning, the last mile or last kilometer is the last leg of a journey comprising the movement of passengers and goods from a transportation hub to a final destination. The concept of "last mile" was adopted from the telecommunications industry, which faced difficulty connecting individual homes to the main telecommunications network. Similarly, in supply chain management, last-mile describes the logistical challenges at the last phase of transportation getting people and packages from hubs to their final destinations.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bolt (company)</span> Peer-to-peer ridesharing, food delivery](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Bolt_logo.png/320px-Bolt_logo.png)
Bolt is an Estonian mobility company that offers ride-hailing, micromobility rental, food and grocery delivery, and carsharing services. The company is headquartered in Tallinn and operates in over 500 cities in more than 45 countries in Europe, Africa, Western Asia and Latin America. The company has more than 150 million customers and more than 3 million driver and courier partners. The company has plans for an initial public offering in 2025.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yandex Taxi</span> Russian taxi service](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Yandex.Taxi_on_Moscow_streets.jpg/320px-Yandex.Taxi_on_Moscow_streets.jpg)
Yandex Taxi is an international company operating taxi hailing and food delivery services across Russia, the CIS, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It is owned by Russian tech company Yandex. The company is among the world's leading developers of self-driving technology.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wolt</span> Online food delivery service](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Wolt-app-icon-2019.png)
Wolt Enterprises Oy, trading as Wolt, is a Finnish food delivery company known for its delivery platform for food and merchandise. On Wolt's apps or website, customers can order food and household goods from the platform's restaurant and merchant partners, and either pick up their order or have it delivered by the platform's courier partners. Wolt also runs its own chain of grocery stores called Wolt Market. Wolt is headquartered in Helsinki.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oxa</span>](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/76/%22Oxa_logo_2023.jpg%22.jpg/320px-%22Oxa_logo_2023.jpg%22.jpg)
Oxa is an autonomous vehicle software company, headquartered in Oxfordshire, England, and founded by Paul Newman and Ingmar Posner.
![kar-go Autonomous delivery vehicle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Kar-go_Self-Drive_Vehicle.jpg/320px-Kar-go_Self-Drive_Vehicle.jpg)
Kar-go, is an autonomous delivery vehicle, designed and built by British company, Academy of Robotics Ltd, a UK company, registered in Wales. The vehicle uses self-drive / driverless car technology to drive itself to locations where it delivers packages autonomously.
Nuro, Inc. is an American robotics company based in Mountain View, California. Founded by Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, Nuro develops autonomous delivery vehicles and is the first company to receive an autonomous exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kiwi Campus</span> Colombian-owned startup company](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Kiwibot_Berkeley_Front.jpg/320px-Kiwibot_Berkeley_Front.jpg)
Kiwi Campus, commonly referred to as Kiwi, is a Colombian-owned startup company providing food deliveries in California, United States, using largely autonomous robots called Kiwibots. Started in 2017 at the University of California, Berkeley, the company also delivers to parts of the city of Berkeley, on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, and in San Jose.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yandex self-driving car</span> Robotaxi project](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Self-Driving_Car_Yandex.Taxi.jpg/320px-Self-Driving_Car_Yandex.Taxi.jpg)
Yandex self-driving car is an autonomous car project of the Russian-based technology company Yandex. The first driverless prototype launched in May 2017. As of 2018, functional service was launched in Russia with prototypes also being tested in Israel and the United States. In 2019, Yandex revealed autonomous delivery robots based on the same technology stack as the company's self-driving cars. Since 2020, autonomous robots have been delivering food, groceries and parcels in Russia and the United States. In 2020, the self-driving project was spun-off into a standalone company under the name of Yandex Self-Driving Group.
Goggo Network is a company with headquarters in Madrid, Berlin and Paris, dedicated to the creation of autonomous mobility networks in different cities in Europe. It was founded in 2018 as "105. "Media" Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH" by Springer SE and changed to 'goggo network' 14.11.2019. Change to Martin Varsavsky as CEO in February 2020. Yasmine Fage serves as COO.
Academy of Robotics is a UK-based artificial intelligence technology company that creates technology to automate repetitive tasks and logistics.