Yandex robots start delivering medicines from 36.6 pharmacies in Moscow

People in Moscow can now have medicines delivered by Yandex robots, after the pharmacy chain 36.6 started the service with Yandex Delivery, a Yandex Delivery representative told CNews. Customers can order non-prescription drugs, such as painkillers, antivirals and allergy remedies, as well as cosmetics and dietary supplements.

The service is being tested in eight districts, including Khamovniki, Tverskoy and Arbat, and the company hopes to extend it to St Petersburg depending on the results. Customers choose robot delivery when ordering on the chain's websites or apps, a pharmacist hands the order to the robot at the pharmacy, and the buyer opens the robot on arrival to take it out.

Yandex's delivery robots worked in 13 cities at the end of the third quarter of 2026, with a fleet of more than 1,500. They have made more than 2 million deliveries, over 750,000 of them in the third quarter.