en.Wedoany.com Reported - San Francisco-based robotics company Robot.com® officially announced its entry into the workforce humanoid robot field at the Automate 2026 exhibition (June 22-25) in Chicago on June 22, 2026, launching the commercial wheeled humanoid robot R-noid™. The robot is deployed under a Robotics as a Service (RaaS) model, with the fastest deployment from the first customer site visit to autonomous on-site operations taking just 8 to 12 weeks. The announcement was officially released via PR Newswire on June 22.
Formerly known as Kiwibot, Robot.com was founded in 2017 and completed its brand rename in October 2025. The company has secured funding from investors including Headline, Sodexo VC, and the University of California, Berkeley's SkyDeck Fund. To date, Robot.com has deployed over 500 robots, completed more than 2.5 million tasks, and commercially deployed fewer than 40 R-noid units across approximately 12 customers. Disclosed deployment cases include the Harbor Links Golf Course in New York, where R-noid assists in loading food onto delivery robots and supports order packaging operations.
The R-noid features a wheeled omnidirectional mobile chassis rather than a bipedal walking design, equipped with dual 7-degree-of-freedom robotic arms and a 4-degree-of-freedom articulated torso, with a vertical reach range of 0 to 1.9 meters. The robot is powered by a vision-language-action foundation model provided by Physical Intelligence, while integrating FieldAI's general foundation model as the navigation and autonomous decision-making layer. Robot.com collaborated with Japan's Yukai Engineering to design the R-noid's human-robot interaction and expression behavior system, R-soul. The launch of R-noid received support from multiple companies and institutions, including NVIDIA Robotics, Astribot, FieldAI, Formic, Physical Intelligence, Robots for America, and Yukai Engineering.
The initial R-noid solutions cover five major categories—restaurant assistant, packer, picker, folder, and receptionist—deployed across six industries: industrial, logistics, healthcare, food service, hospitality, and experience economy. Robot.com CEO and co-founder Felipe Chávez Cortés stated that R-noid is not a bet on the future of robotics, but a robot solving long-standing labor challenges right now in kitchens, packaging lines, and event venues. This launch comes amid intensifying commercial competition in the global humanoid robot market, with R-noid positioned as a practical workplace tool for specific tasks rather than a general-purpose humanoid robot.
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