Robot.com Signs Seven-Year Sodexo Deal, Its Largest Single Enterprise Deployment

Robot.com has signed a seven-year commercial agreement with Sodexo to expand autonomous delivery across Sodexo-operated college campuses in North America, a contract the company describes as its largest single enterprise deployment. Announced August 20, 2026, the deal extends a partnership that began in 2021 and broadens it for the first time beyond delivery into robot-carried advertising.

The agreement continues Sodexo’s use of Robot.com’s Level 4 autonomous delivery robots across its managed campus portfolio and adds the fleet’s advertising layer, turning the robots into a mobile out-of-home platform alongside their delivery routes. Sodexo, the food services and facilities management group that says it serves 80 million consumers daily, frames the deal as part of a wider push into digital and AI-enabled campus services.

“We’re honored to have been a close working partner with Sodexo these past five years in bringing autonomous delivery services to the students and universities they serve,” said J. Kim Fennell, Chief Business Officer of Robot.com, in the announcement. “We’ve learned a lot together, on deployment and economic models, and we’re excited to now significantly broaden those deployments.”

Roberta Frierson, VP of Digital, Campus, at Sodexo North America, said the work extends access, creates more flexible service models, and integrates automation into existing systems “in a way that delivers measurable value for clients, students and operators.”

The Delivery Robots Behind the Contract

The machines doing the campus work are Robot.com’s R-kiwi sidewalk robots, which the company’s product page lists at Level 4 autonomy with a 12-hour battery and a 19-liter cargo compartment, carrying food and packages on campuses and sidewalks. Sodexo is the named anchor customer for that line, alongside Grubhub and Aramark.

The fleet around them has been widening. Robot.com’s portfolio now spans R-cargo for warehouse and bulk logistics, the R-noid humanoid for kitchen and back-of-house labor, and R-dog, a four-legged delivery concept unveiled August 11, 2026 and built for the stairs and curbs where wheeled robots stop. R-dog runs on REMI, the fleet management layer that operates every Robot.com robot from teleoperation to deployment, and the company is developing its production version with FieldAI, whose Field Foundation Models serve as the robot’s autonomy brain. The advertising side of the Sodexo deal, branded R-ads, runs across that fleet: brands upload campaigns remotely to screens mounted on the robots.

A Partnership That Started With 200 Robots on 10 Campuses

The Sodexo relationship predates the Robot.com name. The company operated as Kiwibot until rebranding in October 2025, and the campus delivery program was its first business. In February 2022, Sodexo announced an expanded contract aimed at putting more than 1,200 Kiwibot robots across 50 US college campuses by the end of that year, up from roughly 200 robots on 10 campuses that spring. Students at participating schools could order through their Sodexo meal plans, with deliveries already running at New Mexico State University, Loyola Marymount University, and Gonzaga University.

Sodexo also put capital behind the partnership, joining Kiwibot’s roughly $7.5 million pre-Series A in 2022 alongside Headline, and it remains on the investor list alongside UC Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, New Future Capital, Innosphere Ventures Fund, and Tylt Ventures.

What Seven Years Buys Both Sides

For Robot.com, the contract’s length is the story: a seven-year enterprise commitment is a long runway in a campus delivery market where Serve Robotics and other sidewalk operators are chasing the same food-delivery volume through platform partnerships. The company’s ambitions have meanwhile moved well past the campus. It entered the humanoid labor market this summer with the commercial launch of R-noid, aimed at manufacturers, warehouse operators, and food service providers.

The numbers the company puts on its current operation: more than 500 robots deployed across the United States, Canada, Dubai, and MENA, and over 2.5 million tasks completed. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Colombia, Robot.com now describes itself as a dual-engine business, with robotic services on one side and a robot-powered advertising network on the other.

The new agreement folds both engines into the Sodexo relationship. R-dog, the company says, will move from concept to commercial deployments in 2027.