Kiwi Campus

[5] They have six cameras and binocular vision[6] for navigation and hazard avoidance and are largely autonomous; human operators at the company's center in Medellín monitor their progress at waypoints and take control when needed,[5][7][8] such as when crossing streets.

[11] When a robot encounters a serious problem, such as tampering or becoming lost because of imprecise GPS, the run is completed by a human on foot or on a Segway.

In 2016, he founded the current company with CTO Jason Oviedo[13] and COO Sergio Pachón[4] in the University of California, Berkeley's Skydeck business incubator,[2] soon substituting robots for human couriers after discovering the cost in the United States;[4][14] he has said that he was shocked to find that when he ordered a pizza online (or, in an alternate version, a burrito),[11] the delivery charge was almost as high as the price of the pizza.

[2] That month the company was planning expansion to the city of Palo Alto and to San Jose and Los Angeles in the remainder of 2018.

[citation needed] In April 2024, Kiwi Campus purchased the Taipei-based Auto Mobility Solutions, which specializes in chip manufacturing for robots, citing rising tensions between the US and China.