Category: Behind the Bot
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Whether it’s the Pazzi, Flippy or Cafe X, the food robots we often write about are articulating arms that swing about to prepare and serve up food. But there are a lot of existing restaurants where that form factor wouldn’t really work given the space and how the food is served. Think of fast casual…
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Surprisingly, two of the biggest stories out of this years’ Consumer Electronics Show (CES) weren’t about TVs or drones, they were about… food. On the one hand, you had Impossible impressing with its new meatless burger. And tucked away in the South Hall of the convention center, a bread-making robot was busy baking loaves and…
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SoftBank has invested $940 million into driverless vehicle startup Nuro The Wall Street Journal reports. The deal is noteworthy not just for the amount of money involved, but also for the growth it could spur in driverless delivery, as well as how it plays into SoftBank’s portfolio of automated mobility companies. Nuro makes autonomous, low-speed…
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Chowbotics will be bringing a version of its salad making robot to Europe, courtesy of a new partnership with French vegetable company Bonduelle. While here in the U.S. Chowbotics‘ ‘bot is named “Sally,” the forthcoming French version will go by “Cabaletta.” From the press release: Like Sally the Robot, Cabaletta can operate 24/7 and will offer…
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The Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program released a new report yesterday on the future and impact of automation on the U.S. workforce. Predictably, food service jobs do not fare well. Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places forecasts automation trends across industries through 2030. From that report: Approximately 25 percent of U.S.…
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Amazon unveiled Scout, its own li’l rover delivery robot via a corporate blog post today. Details are scant, but the cooler-sized, six-wheeled bot will make its debut near Amazon’s (original) HQ in Snohomish County, Washington. The company’s announcement didn’t mention food or groceries, only saying Scout is “designed to safely get packages to customers using…
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AutoX, the startup that made a splash last year with its self-driving grocery delivery + mobile-commerce solution, expanded into the hot food delivery space, and is now working with 14 restaurants in the San Jose area. When it launched its first pilot, AutoX caught our eye because the company wasn’t just making straight grocery deliveries.…
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Starship Technologies announced that starting today lazy tech-savvy students at George Mason University can get food and drinks delivered via robot anywhere on campus. A fleet of more than 25 robots will be deployed at launch at the Fairfax, VA school, which, the company says, is “the largest implementation of autonomous robot food delivery services…
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The days of hearing “Clean up on aisle 7” on the grocery store intercom are numbered. Ahold Delhaize is bringing nearly 500 robots to roam the aisles of GIANT/MARTIN’s and Stop & Shop stores to identify messes. Dubbed “Marty,” the Badger Technologies robot has been in tests at GIANT locations where, according to the press…
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Do I really need to say more than “Robot Party Butler” to pique your interest? Because if I do, thankfully I have a video from CES showing Fresh Geoffrey in action. Fresh Geoffrey is an autonomous robot that can roam around your house serving you and your guests cold beer on tap, snacks, and, because…
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Throughout 2018, we chronicled the rise of food robots and the fundamental ways they are changing how we eat. From the farm, to automated restaurants to doorstep delivery, robots are on the rise and 2019 is poised to be a watershed year for them. Which is why we are excited to announce Articulate, a one-day…
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Back in college, whenever I rode my bike through the Gasworks Park neighborhood in Seattle, I’d get hit with the smell of bread baking as I passed the local bread factory. As you can imagine, it was wonderful. And now, Wilkinson Baking Company hopes to bring the best smell in the world to your local…
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