Robot.com has announced a seven-year commercial agreement with Sodexo Group, its largest single enterprise deployment, first reported by Therobotreport. The agreement builds on a partnership that began in 2021 and has expanded across select Sodexo-operated college campuses in North America; separately, R-Kiwi has completed 2.4 million tasks across campuses and city sidewalks.
Robot.com uses Remi, its robot implementation intelligence platform, to improve the economics of implementation. Felipe Chavez Cortes said the platform combines classical robotics, third-party software and advertising technology, letting the company generate revenue from advertising as well as delivery.
Campus deployment strategies are taking different paths. Starship Technologies recently announced plans to wind down its campus deliveries in favor of groceries, while Cortes described campuses as outdoor environments with people but less complexity than urban settings.
Robot.com has deployed more than 500 R-Kiwi delivery robots. To keep them running, it uses a layered approach that includes on-site attention, teleoperation and AI-agent attention; partnerships with Field AI and Physical Intelligence support safety targets as the company enters more challenging environments.
Robot.com plans to add R-Dog, a quadruped that can drop packages, go upstairs and get into autonomous vehicles without vehicle modifications. Most delivery robots require recipients to open a compartment and retrieve items themselves, so R-Dog could deliver a wider range of items.
Those college-campus deliveries are also helping prepare Robot.com for industrial use cases. Cortes said those environments have normal access to Wi-Fi and are more controlled, while the company is introducing industrial robots and humanoids on top of Remi.
Cortes said the company had already completed a quarter of a million hours generating revenue in the first half of the year and aims to reach a million hours per year soon. He linked the decision between wheels and legs to whether humanoids can be made more affordable.