Category: Behind the Bot
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One of the big reasons we put on our ArticulATE food robotics conference earlier this month, was that we could see the rise in automation throughout the food stack. Now Meticulous Research projects some numbers for that growth, with a report out today saying the size of the global food robotics market will hit $3.1…
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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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One of the reasons we hosted our ArticulATE food robot conference in San Francisco this week is because, well, it’s where most food robots are. So it only made sense while I was in town to go on a Food Network-esque trip around town, enjoying all the robot repasts I could. My tour did not…
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Looks like LG is getting into the dedicated food robot space with the announcement today that it has formed a partnership with Korean restaurant chain, CJ Foodville. According to the AJU Business Daily, LG will build a Flippy-like robot that will begin testing this year. LG’s move into more dedicated food robotics isn’t that surprising…
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In the not-too-far-off future, if you’re stuck at the airport at an ungodly hour, at least you’ll have good food to eat, thanks to a wave of high-tech vending machines like the Yo-Kai Express. Yo-Kai Express is built for high-traffic areas (like airports) and can dispense piping hot bowls of ramen 24 hours a day.…
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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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There was a time when all you needed to make your grocery store stand out was a better selection of food. Those quaint days are gone as any food retailer worth its sel de mer now needs robots. Whether they are in the storeroom or out and about in the aisles, all the cool kids…
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When we first wrote about Truebird, the quiet NYC startup building automated micro-cafes, we didn’t have many details about the company or its go-to market strategy. But I had the chance to chat with Truebird Co-Cofounder and CEO Josh Feuerstein this week, who shared with me some more information about Truebird and how his barista…
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It’s that time again, folks. Each year, the National Restaurant Association (NRA) releases a State of the Restaurant Industry Report that identifies the current state of restaurants as well as what to expect in the coming months. The 2019 edition dropped at the end of last week and, perhaps unsurprisingly, focused heavily on two things:…
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Walmart appears to be going all-in on robots, as The Wall Street Journal reports today that the retail giant is adding a host of robots to the front and back of more than a thousand of its stores. A big beneficiary of Walmart’s automation push is Bossa Nova, makers of the shelf-scanning robot, which roams…
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Augean Robotics, creators of the “Burro” robot that hauls stuff around farms, announced earlier this week that it had raised $1.5 million seed round. The round was led by ffVC, with participation from S2G Ventures, Radicle Growth, and several others. The Burro is a squat, rugged, flatbed robot that can autonomously carry 500 pounds of…
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If you want to see the future of robots, go to college. I don’t mean become a student and take classes, I mean just literally head to a college campus as they are quickly becoming the go-to spot for companies to launch robots. Among the latest is Blendid’s smoothie-making robot, which is launching at the…
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