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Robot.com signs seven-year Sodexo delivery-robot agreement

Robot.com signs seven-year Sodexo delivery-robot agreement Image: Primary
Robot.com has signed a seven-year commercial agreement with Sodexo Group, extending a partnership that began in 2021 at select Sodexo-operated North American college campuses. Robot.com's chief executive described it as the company's largest single enterprise deployment. The company has deployed more than 500 R-Kiwi sidewalk delivery robots and said its systems generated a quarter-million revenue-producing operating hours in the first half of the year.
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