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Micycles

Give neighbourhood businesses a more affordable way to reach their customers.

The last mile should not put the next customer out of reach.

A neighbourhood business should be able to reach a customer a few streets away. When delivery costs make a small order uneconomic, both the shop and the customer lose that possibility.

Micycles is developing electric delivery robots to make local orders more affordable. Several customers’ orders can share a trip, with each kept secure separately. Nairobi is the planned first market; safety, reliability and real delivery costs still need to be established through local trials.

Why we’re building it.

A neighbourhood shop can have the right product and still be too expensive to order from. When getting a small purchase to the customer costs more than the shop or customer can justify, the sale never happens. Affordable delivery can change who a local business is able to serve.

6 orderscan have separate secure compartments in the published design, sharing one delivery trip

Nairobiplanned first market; the company is in development

Micycles is developing an electric delivery robot for African cities, with Nairobi as its planned first market. Its published design gives six separate orders secure space in one vehicle. Sharing a trip could lower the cost of each delivery; supervised local trials still need to establish safety, reliability and the actual economics.

A delivery model built for the neighbourhood.

Make local commerce easier to reach, with safety and real delivery costs guiding the work.

Make small orders worth delivering

Let several local orders share one trip. The aim is a cost that works for neighbourhood businesses and the customers buying from them.

Build for the streets people actually use

Routes include pedestrians, uneven surfaces and busy shopfronts. Local testing must show where the robot can operate safely and when a person needs to step in.

Prove the benefit in everyday use

Judge the service by completed deliveries, reliability and total cost. Any benefits to customers, workers or the environment need evidence from real operations.

Help Micycles go further.

Bring customers, local knowledge or a partnership that can help the company reach more people.

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