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The Robots Graduated. The Groceries Stayed.
Starship spent years teaching small robots to cross streets and deliver campus lunches. Ten million deliveries later, its most consequential move was leaving the American quad for the grocery aisle.
Kiwibot
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.