Watch Uber’s robot truck deliver 45,000 cans of Budweiser

As part of a small partnership with Anheuser-Busch, Otto, the self-driving trucking startup acquired by Uber, delivered 45,000 beers from a weigh station in Fort Collins, Colo. to Colorado Springs.

It’s the first-ever delivery completed fully autonomously and is a sign that — following its exit from China, where it was losing billions of dollars — Uber is growing more serious about diversifying its revenue streams.

The partnership between Anheuser-Busch and Otto covers only this one trip, for which the beer manufacturer paid Otto a typical market rate of $470, according to the company.

Uber acquired Otto for close to $700 million in August, mere months after the company officially launched. Together, the newly merged company is creating a service called UberFreight that will match truck drivers and fleet managers with freight that needs to be shipped.

You can watch the robot truck on its beer run here:

You can also watch an interview we conducted at Otto’s headquarters:

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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