Category: Podcasts
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Ever since reading The Martian years ago, I’ve been fascinated with the idea of eating in space. Whether it be during a long interstellar journey to another planet, living in a permanent spacecraft like the Space station, or colonizing Mars or the Moon, the book (and later the film) crystalized for me the monumental challenge…
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Each week, our editors get together for an planning call where we discuss topics, trends and stories we want to cover on The Spoon. Since we always have a blast talking foodtech, we thought we’d double-dip this week and also record the conversation. So here it is, the first Spoon editor roundtable podcast! The topics…
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If one were to look at all the consumer tech products rolled out over the past decade, they’d be hard pressed to find two more vastly different outcomes than that of the Amazon Echo and Juicero. But here’s what most people don’t know: it was the same person running point on hardware development for both…
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When you have a conference focused on the future of food and cooking, people inevitably ask you what the kitchen of the future will look like. That usually means talking a lot about emerging cooking technologies, new appliances and futuristic kitchen designs — but what if the answer to the question about what happens to the…
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In this special episode of the Smart Kitchen Show, Chris Albrecht and I catch up with our good friend Stacey Higginbotham of the IoT Podcast to talk about the big Amazon Alexa devices event in Seattle today. Stacey was on hand as Amazon unveiled a slate of new devices, including an Alexa powered microwave and the…
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While most of us only started to think about food robots in the last couple of years, Rishi Israni and his cofounder (and wife) Pranoti Nagarkar Israni have been thinking about them every day for a decade. That’s because ten years ago Pranoti decided to build a robot to create the Indian flat bread called…
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At last year’s Smart Kitchen Summit, celebrity chef Tyler Florence declared “the recipe is dead!” We decided to have a conversation about it at Smart Kitchen Summit Europe.
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A decade ago, Amy Gross was enjoying a glass of wine with her husband when she noticed how the same wine tasted different to different people. From there she began to think about how technology could be used to make personalized wine recommendations, and it wasn’t long before IBM and others wanted to learn more…
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A few years ago, Michael Wystrach had left a career in finance and was looking to get healthy. The problem? He hated cooking. Lucky for him, not only did he own a restaurant, but he also had a good family friend who could design a healthy meal plan for him. He soon had his own chefs…
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What does a robot barista, smart oven and precision heated coffee cup all have in common? They’re all technology-forward food products that product design firm Ammunition Group had a hand in creating. I recently caught up with Matt Rolandson, a partner with Ammunition Group, to talk about designing new products for the smart kitchen and…
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Pieter Abbeel is a professor of robotics and AI at UC Berkeley, startup advisor, co-founder of Covariant.ai and this week’s guest on The Automat. Covariant’s (formerly Embodied Intelligence) technology gets pretty futuristic pretty quick, so stay with us. Covariant is developing a way for people to train robots using virtual reality. While this approach is…
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Produce is grown across somewhere between 250 and 300 million square feet of commercial greenhouse space in the U.S.. That’s a whole lot of crops that need to be monitored to make sure they are watered, properly lit and healthy. Thankfully, iUnu (pronounced “yoo-noo”) is here to help. The company makes Luna, a robot that…
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