Year 1: Building Strong Foundations (2024)
Client | Client Profile | Use case | Market size | Traction |
University Campuses | Universities with a large campus environment that can act as a small city.
Preference to campuses which have many student accommodations and faculties within 1-5km distance from each other. | Transporting books, documents, food.
Significant need for efficient campus logistics solutions
PeykBot can navigate through different terrains and crowds, ensuring timely and reliable delivery, and enhancing the overall campus experience for students and faculty. | Over 1,000 universities in the Middle East
Saudi alone has over 30 universities with 500K+ students
Transport and logistics market on campuses worth over $150M | Partnership with Cranfield Univ.
PeykBot signed a deal to provide autonomous delivery robots to Cranfield's campus
The robots operate on campus pathways delivering food, parcels, mail between university buildings
Cranfield was chosen as the first UK pilot site to test PeykBot's technology in a campus setting
Practical Output
PeykBot launched a 6 month pilot in January 2024 deploying 10 delivery robots on campus
The robots make over 100 deliveries per day of student orders, mail/parcels across the campus
Feedback will help
PeykBot gather real-world performance data and improve the technology
Peyk also has initiated talks with Saudi’s largest University Campus known as KAUST. PeykBots will be deployed in a campus of over 40km radius with over 10k people within the area. This collaboration will be initiated post-investment due to high robot quantity requirements. |
Logistic Companies | Last mile delivery startups such as ‘Stuart’
Food delivery platforms such as ‘Deliveroo’
E-commerce delivery aggregators such as ‘Gophr’
E-mobility platforms such as ‘lime’
In every market, there are these delivery platforms who have significant local awareness. | Optimizing last-mile delivery at cost perspective.
Offering sustainable solutions for restricted areas.
Creating enhanced brand awareness and PR goals with robotics. | Growing Middle East logistics sector worth billions
Middle East logistics market set to exceed $90B by 2024.
Last-mile accounts for over 30% of delivery costs | Trials have taken place in 5 GCC countries (Qatar, Saudi, Iraq, Kuwait and the UAE) with small to medium sized delivery platforms to trial the concept of robotics within the last mile environment. The robots complete the last mile segment of a delivery through an integration with the existing software infrastructure of the platform. The companies have shown interest to enter commercialisation stage with LOI in place. |
Sustainable cities and Business Parks | Sustainable cities and business parks usually feature a large radius of various buildings, housing, shopping and leisure facilities where interaction between them are necessary. Eg. grocery delivery from local supermarket to office building.
Majority have constant interdepartmental delivery needs | Internal mail and parcel delivery between buildings
Food and grocery delivery
Use of robotic in city for advertising purposes | The GCC has the largest number of sustainable cities in the world.
Over 25 business parks just within the UAE.
Average business park in the UAE has 450 deliveries per day.
Sustainable cities + business parks are willing to invest significantly on robotics to promote their vision and brand.
Dubai silicon oasis is known to become the first city to offer the A to Z for robotic startups. From research hubs to real outdoor street trials.
Average fee per local delivery that people pay in the UAE is AED40. This is the third highest in the world. | PeykBot conducted its first trials in Qatar with Pass Delivery during the Fifa world cup season in the sustainable city of Musheireb that features 50+ retailers with 250k+ offices and residential space.
PeykBot trialed robotic deliveries in the sustainable compound of MassCity in Erbil Iraq during summer 2023 with collaboration through a local food delivery platform. This area features 1000+ villas/direct houses that makes it very ideal for robots.
PeykBot trialled deliveries in Milton Keynes business hubs thanks to Centre MK and the council.
PeykBot has initiated conversations with DSO Dubai to initiate deliveries post investment.
PeykBot has initiated talks with the world's largest sustainable city called NEOM in Saudi Arabia after project completion. |
Year 2: Scaling Up and Expanding (2025)
Client | Client Profile | Use case | Market size |
Medium Enterprises | Medium sized SMEs that can be startups classified in the Series A+ range. Companies who might also have existing traditional fleet infrastructure. | SMEs can benefit from faster and more affordable deliveries in the long run using robots in small districts and gated communities. Significant sustainability in air and noise pollutions.
Some longers deliveries can be treated as hybrid. Meaning that the bike driver can hand over the package to a robot once near the community and driver can head off to the next order, saving time on the final sector of parcel handover. | UAE has over 300,000 SMEs, Saudi has 250,000+ SMEs
Majority frequently require last-mile delivery solutions.
The proportion of smart cities and gated compounds are increasing significantly across the GCC. In Dubai, there are over 40 gated compounds which medium sized companies such as laundries can benefit from deliveries using robots.
The UK is significantly investing on modern housing estates with various retailers in a short distance. Targeted cities like MK is ideal for robots. Each of these small cities have at least 25k SMEs. |
Hotel & Resort Chains | Luxury resorts especially the ones with a large campus of detached and semi-detached residences. Lots in the GCC and Asia. | Guest amenities and room service. More sustainable. No air and noise pollution. More affordable for the hotel in the long run to operate. | GCC hospitality industry worth approximately $30B
Food delivery accounts for 20% of hotel F&B revenue |
Residential Complexes | High profile residential complexes across the GCC such as Emaar properties in Dubai.
| Home deliveries for residents. In complexes like this, some have restrictions on who can enter the compound. Recently delivery drivers on motorcycles can not enter the complexes so they have to make the last segment on foot. Robots are a great alternative to solve this. | Dubai and Abu Dhabi have over 1,000 large residential complexes
High demand for convenient delivery options.
High profile complexes invest in tech based solutions to promote sustainability and futurism. |
Year 3: Securing Key Partnerships (2026)
Client | Client Profile | Use case | Market size |
Major Logistic Platforms | This is split into several categories.
1: The e-commerce giants such as Amazon and Arabian alternatives such as Noon whom have large dispatch centres.
2: Aggregates/platforms whom deliver on a last mile basis with various fleet such as Uber, Deliveroo, Careem, etc. In this version, the robot will act as a new solution to their fleet.
3: International and large courier companies such as DHL and Fedex who can usually deploy robotics within their warehouse facilities. | Optimizing last-mile delivery at cost perspective.
Offering sustainable solutions for restricted areas.
Creating enhanced brand awareness and PR goals with robotics. | Middle East logistics market projected to hit $150B by 2026
Last-mile accounts for nearly 40% of delivery costs on average
25% of deliveries conducted by logistics giants are the final last mile journey which can easily be converted to robotics. |
Hospitals | Hospitals with large corridors and ones with more than one building in the same campus who require assistance in logistics | Secure transport of medical items, prescriptions, high level medical equipment between buildings, faculties, etc.
Distribution of promotional/advertising material such as leaflets, sanitising wipes, etc to people within the hospital common areas. | Approximately 800 hospitals in UAE and Saudi Arabia combined
Healthcare logistics market in Middle East over $3.5B
Hospitals have significant budget from large end medical brands such as GSK to promote new products to patients. Robots can be a great use for showing this in common areas. |
Shopping Centers | Any shopping centre whether indoors or outdoors. Large ones such as the Dubai mall will be very ideal.
Outdoor shopping districts that are widely available in the GCC are great for commute of delivery robots between shops and cafes to people near parking, valet, sitting areas. | Customer deliveries within the shopping centre.
Using the robot as an advertising tool for marketing purposes.
Allows cafes and shop owners to access items from their storage unit if its located away from their shop.
Direct delivery of goods to customers staying in their cars outside the mall. | Total value of retail sector transactions in GCC at $250B
2,300+ shopping malls across the GCC
The GCC primarily Dubai is known for the largest and best shopping malls in the World. With Dubai Mall being the world's largest indoor shopping mall.
10+ outdoor sustainable shopping/leisure districts recently opened across the UAE whom can directly benefit from robotic deliveries as of now. |
Airports | Delivery of items from duty free stores to the gates |