Serve Robotics Inc. (Nasdaq: SERV), the sidewalk-delivery robot company that spun out of Uber in 2021, filed a current report on Form 8-K dated June 24, 2026 disclosing a change to its board of directors under Item 5.02. The filing records two linked events: a resignation and an appointment that fills the seat it vacated.

According to the filing, on June 17, 2026 Sarfraz Maredia, a member of the board, informed the company of his decision to resign, effective immediately. The 8-K states that his decision "did not result from any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company's operations, policies or practices" - the standard language a registrant uses to signal there is no underlying dispute behind a director's departure. Maredia, who is Global Head of Autonomous Mobility & Delivery at Uber, had served on Serve's board for three years, a tenure that spans the company's path to becoming public.

Five days later, on June 22, 2026, the board acted on the recommendation of its nominating and corporate governance committee to appoint Andreas Lieber as a Class I director, effective immediately, filling the vacancy created by Maredia's resignation. Per the filing, Lieber will serve until the company's 2027 annual meeting of stockholders or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. The board determined that Lieber qualifies as an "independent director" under the listing standards of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC.

The mandate, stated

The 8-K is explicit about why the company sees Lieber as a fit, and about the terms of his service. He will be compensated under the company's amended and restated outside director compensation policy described in its April 24, 2026 proxy statement, and has entered into a customary indemnification agreement filed as Exhibit 10.1. The filing discloses no special compensation arrangement beyond the standard outside-director policy, and states there are no family relationships, no transactions reportable under Item 404(a), and no arrangements or understandings under which he was appointed.

On his background, the filing notes Lieber currently serves as General Manager, Industry & Technology at California Forever, leading the Solano Foundry development. Before that he held roles at Shippo - Chief Operating Officer from 2022 to 2024 - and at Postmates, where he was General Manager and Interim CEO from December 2020 to August 2021, the period during which Serve was spun out as an independent company.

The accompanying press release exhibit (99.1) frames the change as a board evolving with the business. Chief executive and co-founder Ali Kashani is quoted directly:

Serve started on sidewalks delivering food, and we’re now operating robots in hospitals and kitchens as well as beginning to build the infrastructure for other robotics companies to run on. That’s a different company than the one we started, and the board is growing with it- Ali Kashani, co-founder and CEO, Serve Robotics, in Exhibit 99.1 to the 8-K

What the filing does and does not say

The disclosure is a routine board-composition change handled under Item 5.02, accompanied by the indemnification-agreement form (Exhibit 10.1) and the press release (Exhibit 99.1) under Item 9.01. It reports who left, who arrived, the effective dates, the Class I seat and term, the independence determination, and the standard compensation and indemnification terms. It does not disclose any new strategy, transaction, or committee assignment for Lieber beyond the seat itself, and it attributes Maredia's exit to no disagreement. Read against the press release's reference to Serve's 2026 acquisition of Diligent Robotics and its move into hospital service robots, the appointment of a logistics-and-platform operator to the board is the substance the filing puts on the record - no more, no less.