Category: Behind the Bot
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It’s the stones. They move like magic in Truebird‘s robot barista demo video, gliding across a glass surface to cradle and transport cups of coffee and lattes to waiting customers (go ahead and watch it down below, it’s mesmerizing). We’ve seen our fair share of coffee robots here at The Spoon, and at first glance,…
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Starship announced today that it is heading off to (another) college. Starting today, Starship will deploy 30 little delivery robots to Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, AZ. The school’s 25,000 students and faculty can use the Starship app to order meals from campus eateries and set a location for the robot to deliver the…
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Groceries are a bit of an odd duck when it comes to automation. It’s a bunch of irregular shapes with different weights and oftentimes they are very delicate, so you can’t have just any robot hand trying to pick up and move them around. A grocery packing robot needs a certain… touch. This was the…
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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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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver‘s main piece over the weekend was on robots and automation. If you are in the food service industry you can (and should) watch the clip below, but I can also save you a click: Oliver basically says the whole situation around jobs being automated is… complicated. As we’ve written…
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Last week, my colleague Chris Albrecht noted that FedEx is launching an autonomous delivery vehicle called SameDay Bot. Pizza Hut, whose delivery strategy has had to undergo major changes in recent months, has jumped on board the opportunity and will use the bot to deliver to hungry customers later this year. FedEx’s creation is a…
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I’m feeling some deja vu. A record number of robots were shipped in North America last year, according to new stats released yesterday from the Robotics Industry Association (RIA), part of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). The food industry was among the top non-automotive sectors buying. From the press announcement: 35,880 units were shipped in 2018,…
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Robots that cook burgers and bowl foods in restaurants may grab all the headlines, but there are actually plenty of opportunities throughout commercial kitchens for automation. Opportunities that robotics startup, Dishcraft, is looking to fill. Linda Pouliot, Founder and CEO of Dishcraft will be providing a glimpse into the future of commercial kitchen robots when…
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You didn’t think FedEx would sit on the sidelines of the robot revolution, did you? The overnight delivery company officially announced its own autonomous SameDay Bot today that will not only deliver documents and packages, but is equipped to bring you hot pizza or cooled drinks. The SameDay Bot is meant for, well, same day…
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Nymble Labs announced yesterday that it has raised an undisclosed amount of pre-Series A money for its countertop cooking robot dubbed Julia. Investors in the round include WaterBridge Ventures, Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal and 021 Capital. Inc42 reports that Bengaluru, India-based Nymble Labs combines robotics, machine learning and the internet of things to create the…
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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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Cafe X posted a teaser image to Instagram today, telling the world that its robot barista will be coming to the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cafe X (@cafexapp) on Feb 20, 2019 at 10:37am PST The news itself isn’t that surprising. Cafe X is based…
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