Sodexo Campus Agreement Aims to Speed Campus Robot Delivery Launches

Sodexo Campus and autonomous delivery company Avride have agreed to expand robot-delivered dining services across Sodexo Campus partner colleges and universities, with the companies aiming to accelerate rollouts at participating campuses. Sodexo Campus works with about 425 higher education institutions in the United States. Avride’s sidewalk robots use sensors and machine learning to navigate pedestrian areas and deliver orders. The company says its technology is operating at The Ohio State University, Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Arizona and Salisbury University. Avride reports more than 600,000 autonomous deliveries across campuses and cities. For campus dining operators, the deal points to delivery as another layer in a broader unattended-services mix. Sodexo Campus already offers micro markets, grab-and-go markets, kiosks, mobile pickup and smart vending. Robot delivery could extend where students, faculty and staff receive meals, though the announcement did not specify rollout dates or participating campuses beyond existing deployments. Source: Vending Market Watch — https://www.vendingmarketwatch.com/equipment/news/55410461/sodexo-sodexo-campus-agreement-aims-to-speed-campus-robot-delivery-launches