Avride, an autonomous mobility company, and Sodexo Campus announced an agreement to accelerate autonomous robot delivery across Sodexo Campus partner colleges and universities in the United States, connecting Avride’s proven delivery technology with Sodexo Campus’s national higher education footprint.
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The agreement creates a ready framework for participating campuses to move from interest to implementation in weeks instead of months, while giving students, faculty and staff more convenient access to dining beyond traditional service points. Sodexo Campus works with approximately 425 higher education institutions across the U.S., creating a national platform to scale autonomous delivery in campus environments where demand, foot traffic and operating complexity are high.
“College campuses are where delivery is part of daily life,” said Dmitry Polishchuk, CEO of Avride. "By bringing Sodexo Campus’s deep knowledge of campus dining together with Avride’s real-world delivery experience, we have an opportunity to set a new standard for how food moves across campus."
“Technology is most powerful when it solves a real need for the people we serve,” said Roberta Frierson, Vice President of Digital, Campus, Sodexo North America. “Autonomous delivery helps expand access, increase convenience and support more agile campus operations. Through this agreement with Avride, we are making it easier for institutions to adopt practical innovation that can improve the student experience and deliver measurable value for campus communities.”
Avride’s robots are designed for pedestrian-heavy spaces, including walkways and pathways adjacent to residence halls, academic buildings, libraries and campus dining locations, using a combination of sensors and machine learning to autonomously navigate sidewalks and support reliable order fulfillment in busy campus settings.
The technology is already operating on major U.S. campuses, including The Ohio State University, Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Arizona, and Salisbury University. Across campuses and cities, Avride has completed more than 600,000 autonomous deliveries in a range of conditions, giving the company operational experience to deploy and scale fleets across varied environments.
For colleges and universities, autonomous delivery can help modernize campus dining by extending service reach, supporting peak demand periods and giving students more flexibility in how and where they access meals.
For more information on Avride’s delivery robots, please visit: https://www.avride.ai/robot.
About Avride
Avride is a U.S.-based autonomous vehicle startup headquartered in Austin, TX, with additional R&D hubs around the world. The company develops and operates both autonomous cars and delivery robots that share technologies and mutually benefit from each other’s advancements — a unique approach in the industry. Since 2017, Avride has been building expertise in autonomous technologies to create solutions that address current needs and anticipate future demands. Today, its delivery robots and robotaxis are actively fulfilling commercial orders in the U.S. and internationally, proving the scalability and reliability of Avride’s technology.
About Sodexo North America
Sodexo North America is a division of Sodexo Group, a global leader in food and services shaping better everyday experiences at every moment in life: work, heal, learn and play. Operating in all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam, Sodexo North America is committed to meeting the challenges of everyday life with a dual goal: to improve the quality of life of our employees and those we serve, and to contribute to the economic, social and environmental progress in the communities where we operate. Founded in Marseille in 1966 by Pierre Bellon, Sodexo Group stands out for its independence, its founding family shareholding and its responsible business model. Sodexo is included in the CAC Next 20, CAC SBT 1.5, FTSE 4 Good and DJSI indices.
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