Category: AI
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Jay Lee and Springhouse want to help us figure out what’s for dinner. Not only that, but they want to do so by keeping an up-to-date inventory of what’s in our fridge, so we can plan around the food we already have and know what we may need to run to the store for, or…
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For much of the past couple of decades, talk of the future kitchen at CES has conjured tech-forward images of robotic arms sautéing vegetables, humanoids flipping burgers, and, more recently, AI-powered assistants hovering over the stove. But during a conversation I had with a panel of kitchen insiders a couple of weeks ago in Las…
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Walk into almost any grocery store and, chances are, what you see in the fish case is not at peak freshness. You wouldn’t think it’d be that way, especially in places like Seattle, where I live, because such care is given to getting the fish to market quickly. But according to a new venture-backed startup…
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A few weeks ago, the philanthropic investment platform Food System Innovations announced that it had received a $2 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund. FSI’s non-profit group NECTAR has been building a large dataset of consumers’ sensory responses to alt proteins, and the grant will help NECTAR to continue working on, in partnership with Stanford University,…
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While some companies like NotCo have positioned themselves as the OpenAI of the food world, the truth is that the AI transformation of the food industry is still in the first inning. That is partly because the food system itself, a mix of legacy CPG giants, agricultural suppliers, ingredient developers, and regulators, moves at a…
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Earlier this month at IFA, Midea showed off a range of new smart kitchen gear, including a new refrigerator lineup that features a smart clip system to keep track of food expiration dates. The smart fridge system, called the INSTA-FIT MASTER, included what the company calls “AI PREPMASTER” and the NFC clips “AI Food Clips”.…
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There’s a new delivery robot in town, and its name is Dot. DoorDash announced the new delivery bot today, confirming months of rumors that they were working on their own robot. The robot, developed entirely by its internal DoorDash Labs team, is the delivery company’s first homegrown bet on delivery automation and street-level autonomy, signaling…
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As a former semiconductor analyst, I realized one truism of the tech world: makers of component building blocks for any hardware product eventually move up the stack, integrating with software solutions so their OEM partners see them as the preferred foundation on which to build their products. So it’s not surprising to hear that one…
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One of the defining characteristics of early successful food robots has been focus. Whether it’s the Flippy burger-flipping robot, Bear’s front-of-house robotic waiters, or the Autocado avocado-coring and processing robot, the ability of these focused-task robots to automate one or two core functions hyper-efficiently has been a – if not the – key ingredient for…
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If you ask Steve Statler, our current supply chains are essentially the equivalent of an old-school combustion engine (at best), and at worst something akin to a horse-drawn carriage. “We’re running our supply chains with 19th-century visibility,” said Statler, the CEO and cofounder of AmbAI and host of the Mr Beacon Podcast. “The future is…
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As far as my family’s small Pomeranian, Zeus, is concerned, I’m a very distant second banana when it comes to the humans in his life. Sure, he’ll let me feed him and pay the cheese tax, but the reality is he’s only got eyes (and a nose) for one person in his life, which happens…
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Zach Rash wanted to be a professional surfer. So much so, that in high school, there was more surfing than academics. That all changed when Rash reached UCLA and met Brad Squicciarini. It wasn’t long before the two spent every waking hour together in a small room building robots. “We spent like our entire life…
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