Category: Articulate 2019
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We were thrilled when Masahiro Fujita, Chief Research Engineer of the AI Collaboration Office of Sony agreed to be a speaker at our ArticulATE food robotics conference in April. He started Sony’s Robot Entertainment project in 1993 and led the development of the famous AIBO robotic dog. During his ArticulATE presentation, Fujita talked about how…
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The beauty of running an automated or robot-powered business like the coffee-slinging Cafe X or Byte Technologies smart fridges, is that you generate a lot of data. What people are purchasing, when they purchase it, where, how often, etc. All this data powers demand algorithms that help companies like Cafe X and Byte be more…
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Out of all the burger restaurants you could work for, Creator in San Francisco seems like it would be a good choice. First, the burgers there are made by a robot, so duh, awesome. But while a robot may be the center of attention, it’s actually the humans that Creator CEO Alex Vardakostas seems to…
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A recurring theme during our recent ArticulATE food robot and automation conference was the issue of human labor. What do you do when machines displace people in the workforce? It’s a tough question employers throughout the food world are grappling with. On the one hand, automation is coming, and we need to figure out what combination of…
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Robots are really good at moving around. They can roam the aisles of grocery stores easily or manipulate an articulating arm to pour you a cup of coffee. But what robots aren’t good at is understanding the world around them. “The human world is by definition messy and complicated,” Vincent Vanhoucke, Principal Scientist and Director…
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Say you’re a VC looking to invest in a company that makes strawberry-picking robots. There are three or four companies in the space, all vying for your capital to get off the ground. How do you choose where to put your dollars? That’s one of the questions that we tackled last week at ArticulATE, our inaugural…
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Today we head to San Francisco for The Spoon’s first-ever food-robotics event. ArticulAte kicks off at 9:05 a.m. sharp at the General Assembly venue in SF, and throughout the daylong event talk will be about all things robots, from the technology itself to business and regulatory issues surrounding it. When you stop and look around…
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We are a little less than a month away from our food robotics summit, ArticulATE, happening on April 16 in San Francisco. The excitement around Spoon HQ is palpable because we have locked in a fantastic lineup of speakers, including today’s Q&A guest Ryan Tuohy, the Senior VP of Business Development at Starship. Starship’s autonomous rover…
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Ahh Flippy. It was the first food robot I ever wrote about, way back in…2018. Back then, it could only grill burgers. Now, a year later, it can fry tater tots and chicken tenders, and will reportedly soon get a job in a deli. They grow up so fast. Soon Flippy will want the keys…
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We are excited to officially announce the full speaker (and robot!) lineup and agenda for our upcoming ArticulATE Food Robotics Summit. The one-day conference will be held on April 16 at General Assembly in downtown San Francisco, and it promises to be a great event packed with amazing talks about the future of food robots…
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Look in any coffee shop in any city in America (or perhaps even the world) in the morning and chances are you’ll see people lined up to get their first cup of joe. Pretty soon, however, those people could be lined up in front of a robot that automatically and tirelessly slings custom-made lattes 24…
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The hardware of a robot is only as good as the software brain that powers it. This is why we are so excited to have Vincent Vanhoucke, Principle Scientist with the Google Brain team speak at our upcoming ArticulATE conference. In addition to being the director of Google’s robotics research efforts, Vanhoucke has spent his…
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