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Expo City Dubai And Yango Group Launch Autonomous Food Delivery

AI-powered delivery robots are now serving Expo City Dubai, advancing the city’s smart mobility vision with zero-emission, last-mile logistics.

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10 months ago

May 6, 2025

Nour Nasir

Yango

Yango Group has kicked off a four-month pilot program for autonomous food delivery at Expo City Dubai, introducing AI-powered robots that offer a glimpse into the future of last-mile logistics. The initiative aims to enhance convenience for employees, residents, and visitors, while supporting Dubai’s broader smart city ambitions.

The electric, zero-emission robots will deliver meals from select restaurants to Expo City’s main office at Al Wasl Plaza. Operated through the Expo City Eats app, the service currently supports deliveries to the Al Wasl 3 building from four dining outlets.

Using high-definition maps and a suite of sensors, the robots navigate urban areas in real time, avoiding pedestrians, vehicles, and obstacles — even in low light or adverse weather. The bots independently plan their routes and adjust to dynamic conditions, quietly weaving through city environments with precision.

“We are thrilled to collaborate with Expo City Dubai on this pilot program,” said Nikita Gavrilov, Regional Head of Yango Tech Autonomy. “[The] clearly defined zones provide a perfectly controlled environment to safely and efficiently test autonomous technologies”.

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The trial is being conducted through Expo City’s Urban Lab, a city-wide innovation platform designed to test and scale technologies for sustainable, human-centric cities. “Urban Lab lowers barriers to innovation, rigorously testing solutions and preparing markets to adopt impactful, sustainable technologies,” said Dr. Amy Hochadel, Vice President – Urban Lab, Expo City Dubai.

If successful, the pilot will expand to include more restaurants and offer autonomous deliveries to all Expo City residents and businesses. The project also broadens the reach of Yango Tech — Yango Group’s B2B division — by adding to its portfolio of AI-powered enterprise solutions.

As autonomous food delivery becomes more viable, Expo City Dubai is positioning itself as a living testbed for innovation — where sustainability, mobility, and technology converge.

Related Topics:Artificial Intelligence Robotics Yango

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Nano Banana 2 Arrives In MENA For Google Gemini Users

Google brings its latest image model to Gemini and Search, adding 4K output and tighter text control for regional users.

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2 weeks ago

February 27, 2026

Nour Nasir

Google

Google has opened access to Nano Banana 2 across the Middle East and North Africa, pushing its newest image model into everyday tools rather than keeping it inside the exclusive (and expensive) Pro tier.

The rollout spans the Google Gemini desktop and mobile apps, and extends to Google Search through Lens and AI Mode. Developers can also test it in preview via AI Studio and the Gemini API.

Nano Banana 2 runs on Gemini Flash, Google’s fast inference layer. The focus is speed, but also control. Users can export visuals from 512px up to 4K, adjusting aspect ratios for everything from vertical social posts to widescreen displays.

The model maintains character likeness across up to five figures and preserves fidelity for as many as 14 objects within a single workflow. This enables visual continuity across scenes, iterations, or edits — supporting projects like short films, storyboards, and multi-scene narratives. Text rendering has also been improved, delivering legible typography in mockups and greeting cards, with built-in translation and localization directly within images.

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Under the hood, the system taps Gemini’s broader knowledge base and pulls in real-time information and imagery from web search to render specific subjects more accurately. Lighting and fine detail have been upgraded, without slowing output.

By embedding the model inside Gemini and Search, Google is normalizing advanced image generation for a mass audience. In MENA, where startups and marketing teams are leaning heavily on AI to scale content across languages and borders, that shift lands at a practical moment.

The move also folds creative tooling deeper into search itself, so that image generation is no longer a separate workflow. It now sits right next to the query box.