Food and grocery delivery company Postmates has been given the first permit in San Francisco to test sidewalk delivery robots, according to TechCrunch, paving the way for the company to test the Serve autonomous delivery robot it announced in December.

The permit will let Postmates, which is available in 3,500 cities, expand into a new method of transportation for deliveries.

Postmates claims that the electricity-powered robot, which has Velodyne LIDAR sensors and an Nvidia Xavier processor, can carry 50 lbs and travel 30 miles on a single battery charge.

San Francisco Public Works rules say that permits are valid for 180 days, that each permittee can test up to three autonomous delivery devices, and that each robot being tested must have a human operator within 30 feet for the duration of testing.

As a result, you aren’t going to see hordes of autonomous delivery robots on the sidewalks of San Francisco just yet.

Postmates said in December that it initially planned to roll out the robot in the Los Angeles area and bring it to “key cities” across the US, but according to TechCrunch, no other pilots have been announced.

Nvidia has extended a helping hand to the developers working on Nouveau, the open source Linux driver for Nvidia graphics cards, in a move that comes rather out of the blue.

To be precise, Nvidia has released further GPU hardware documents to aid the project which has had its fair share of thorny issues, shall we say.

Nvidia contacted Phoronix in an emailed statement which reads: “Nvidia has released public, freely available (MIT licensed) documentation of portions of its GPU hardware interface.

This is a work in progress; not all interfaces have been published.”

The documents largely pertain to Pascal, Maxwell, and Kepler GPUs, the three generations previous to Turing (Volta is also covered).

Sadly, the latest Turing graphics cards aren’t covered here, because they are simply too new, and work on compiling their open source documentation is still a work in progress, apparently.