Robot.com adds ads to Grubhub deal spanning 20-plus campuses

Founder Felipe Chavez Cortes is extending a delivery business he built from campus routes into a broader robot-services and media operation.

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Primary source: PR Newswire

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The Grubhub extension gives Felipe Chavez Cortes a multi-year delivery footprint and adds advertising to the same robots. That could improve the value of each campus deployment, but the companies disclosed no utilization or financial figures to show the economics.

Autonomous delivery robots with digital ad screens travel a busy university campus pathway past students and buildings.

Robot.com, led by founder and CEO Felipe Chavez Cortes, is adding autonomous delivery to 10 more campuses through a three-year extension with Grubhub. The deal takes the companies' relationship into its fifth year and brings Robot.com's active deployments on Grubhub Campus to more than 20, according to the September 23rd announcement.…

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