Delivery

Sodexo, Kiwibot team to provide robot food delivery to U.S. colleges

Image courtesy of Sodexo.

August 13, 2021

Sodexo has partnered with Kiwibot, a robotic last-mile delivery company, to deliver meals at three campuses this month: New Mexico State University, Loyola Marymount University, California and Gonzaga University, Washington.

Kiwibot offers full remote and in-field customer support to businesses and integrates with point-of-sale to distribute food products via robots. Kiwibot and Sodexo envision a subscription program where every person in a Sodexo-serviced location can access any goods that can fit into a robot and are located within a university campus.

College students will use their meal plans to take advantage of the robot delivery through the delivery app Bite+. Anyone with access to the app can use the service, with each delivery having a flat cost of $2, plus 10% of the order size.

Kiwibot was founded in 2017 and launched a pilot at the University of California-Berkeley campus. After over 150,000 deliveries were completed at Berkeley, Kiwibot expanded to San Jose, Santa Monica, Denver, Dallas, Taipei and Medellin.

"We are excited to grow our robot food delivery service with Kiwibot and provide customers with a safe, convenient, contactless, and innovative solution," Aurelia Valot, the VP of digital transformation and innovation at Sodexo, said in the press release.