# Robot.com's CEO on automating the work that makes people quit

Robot.com CEO Felipe Chavez talks to Business Insider about the company's pivot from delivery robots to workplace humanoids — and why people stay essential in an automated future.

Author — Robot.com, Company  
June 15, 2026

In an interview with [Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-com-ceo-automation-kiwibot-delivery-robots-humanoids-future-labor-2026-6), Robot.com CEO and co-founder Felipe Chavez laid out the company's path from Kiwibot's campus delivery robots to workplace humanoids — a pivot he says has been nearly two years in the making.

The centerpiece is R-noid, a humanoid on a wheeled base rather than legs, designed to package orders, load and unload boxes, and prep workstations across food service, logistics, and healthcare. It pairs dual seven-degree-of-freedom arms and an articulated torso with custom foundation models developed with Physical Intelligence, one of the company's AI lab partners.

On the question that shadows every automation story — what happens to workers — Chavez argued that humans remain essential in a robotic future, pointing to the people who maintain and guide autonomous systems and train humanoids through teleoperation. According to the report, fewer than 40 R-noids have been deployed so far across roughly a dozen customers in industrial, food-service, and logistics settings.

_This is a summary. Read the full interview at [Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-com-ceo-automation-kiwibot-delivery-robots-humanoids-future-labor-2026-6)._