Kiwi's Little Robots Deliver The Last Mile PYMNTS.com

When asked what kind of company it is, the team at Kiwi Campus always says that it is a delivery company, not a robotics firm -- even though in these early days, its delivery robots are probably the most recognizable thing about the company. But, according to co-founder and CTO Jason Oviedo, when he and co-founder and CEO Felipe Chavez Cortes were first thinking about founding a firm, robotics wasn't on their minds. Building a delivery service -- for students, by students -- was. However, Oviedo told PYMNTS in a recent interview, it didn't take them very long to figure out that pure play delivery wasn't a market where they could make a lot of progress, and it wasn't until they started revising that initial idea that they started thinking about automation -- and ultimately delivery robots -- as their best entry point for the market. "That makes a huge different because our entire process and design isn't centered on building the flashiest robot -- it is about how to use a robot to make the delivery process faster, cheaper and better."