Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Yesterday marked a pivotal milestone as Kiwibot announced its transformation into Robot.com, signaling the company’s evolution from a sidewalk robotics startup to a multi-industry automation pioneer.
What began as a campus food delivery service at UC Berkeley eight years ago has rapidly expanded into the company behind one of the most active robot fleets on Earth, now poised to lead the estimated 1.2 trillion global robotics market.
Earlier this week Felipe Chavez, CEO, revealed the company’s bold move on social media saying “We recently acquired robot.com. Here’s why — and what’s behind it. We’ve been quietly building one of the most active real-world robot fleets on Earth. It took us seven years to achieve 300,000 robotic tasks, and we’ve now quadrupled that to over one million tasks completed in just seven months. This evolution goes far beyond a name change. The transition to Robot.com represents a fundamental expansion of the company’s mission: building practical, purpose-driven robots that solve real-world problems today”.
This pragmatic approach to business has already yielded results with major enterprise partnerships, including Sodexo, GrubHub, and Amazon Web Services, with deployments across various sectors.
Today we understand that Robot.com has over 500 robots in active deployment, with operations spanning more than half of the United States. International expansion has accelerated through strategic pilots and advertising campaigns in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, along with a global showcase tour in collaboration with Amazon Web Services that included San Francisco, Paris, Seoul, Berlin, and São Paulo.
Beyond logistics of course, Robot.com has created a unique position in the advertising industry following its acquisition of Nickelytics i September 2024.
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