Kiwibot builds small four-wheeled sidewalk robots that handle last-mile delivery on university campuses and inside cities. Founded in 2017 by three Colombian engineers and incubated at UC Berkeley's SkyDeck, the company now operates more than 1,200 Level 4 autonomous robots across 30-plus campuses, completing hundreds of thousands of deliveries with partners like Sodexo, Shopify, Chick-fil-A and the City of San Jose. In 2025 the parent entity began doing business as Robot.com, broadening from food delivery into advertising, logistics and inspection.
Felipe Chávez Cortés is the CEO and co-founder of Robot.com (formerly Kiwibot), the company that put sidewalk delivery robots on college campuses worldwide. A Colombian entrepreneur who turned a burrito delivery sticker shock at UC Berkeley into a fleet of 500+ autonomous robots completing over 1 million tasks across the US, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and pilot cities in Europe and Asia. Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 for Latin America in 2018, he previously co-founded and sold Lulo - Colombia's first app to accept credit card payments - before pivoting to build what has become one of the world's most-deployed autonomous delivery networks.