Robot.com, the San Francisco autonomous delivery company formerly known as Kiwibot, has signed a seven-year commercial agreement with Sodexo, describing it as the largest single enterprise deployment in its history. Announced August 20, 2026, the pact extends a partnership that began in 2021 and, for the first time, broadens it beyond food delivery into robot-carried advertising across Sodexo-operated college campuses in North America.
Level 4 Sidewalk Robots Get A Multi-Year Runway
The workhorses of the deal are Robot.com's R-kiwi sidewalk robots — 19-liter, 12-hour-battery units the company rates at Level 4 autonomy that already serve Grubhub and Aramark alongside Sodexo. On the newly signed contract, Sodexo remains the anchor customer. J. Kim Fennell, Chief Business Officer of Robot.com, said the two sides had spent five years fine-tuning “deployment and economic models” and would now “significantly broaden those deployments.” Sodexo's Roberta Frierson, VP of Digital, Campus for North America, framed the agreement as part of a wider push to embed automation and AI into managed campus services.
R-ads And R-dog: A Second Revenue Engine
The agreement also folds in R-ads, the fleet-wide advertising network Robot.com launched earlier this year that turns robot-mounted screens into mobile out-of-home media. That was the subject of a standalone product launch in May, covered here. Alongside R-kiwi, the company now runs the R-noid humanoid for kitchen and back-of-house work — launched at Automate 2026 — and R-dog, a four-legged delivery concept unveiled August 11 that runs on the company's REMI fleet-management stack and uses FieldAI's Field Foundation Models as its autonomy brain. R-dog is slated for commercial deployment in 2027.
Scale And Context
Robot.com says it has now completed more than 2.5 million tasks with more than 500 robots across the United States, Canada, Dubai and MENA, and describes itself as a dual-engine business straddling robotic services and a robot-powered advertising network. Sodexo, which serves 80 million consumers daily across 43+ countries, joined Kiwibot's roughly $7.5 million pre-Series A back in 2022 alongside Headline and remains on the cap table. The new seven-year runway sets Robot.com apart in a campus-delivery market where sidewalk operators including Serve Robotics and Coco are chasing the same food volume through platform partnerships.
Reporting based on coverage from Unite.AI and PR Newswire.