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  • Jun 5, 2026

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    AI, Connected Kitchen, News, Next-Gen Cooking

    Lessons From The Rise and Fall of Smart Oven Innovator Brava

    When Brava shut down earlier this year, it marked the end of one of the more ambitious experiments in cooking technology of the past decade. For nearly nine years, Travis

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  • May 26, 2026

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    News, Robotics, AI & Data

    As Picnic Shuts Down and Sells Assets, Others Look to Fill Their Shoes

    Another pizza robot startup has bit the dust. And sadly, this isn’t just any pizza robot startup, but the company that, in many ways, had been the most successful in

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  • Apr 28, 2026

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    News, Robotics, AI & Data

    Appetronix Acquires Food Robot Startup Cibotica

    Food robotics startup Appetronix has acquired fellow Canadian food automation company Cibotica, adding robotic makeline technology to its growing portfolio of autonomous restaurant systems. Appetronix CEO Nipun Sharma told The

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  • Apr 20, 2026

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    AI, News, Restaurant Tech, Robotics, AI & Data

    Creator is Making a Comeback, Only This Time as a Platform Player and Not ‘Robot Theater’

    Here at The Spoon, we’ve been following pretty much every robot restaurant concept for the past decade, and have watched dozens of company ideas and hundreds of millions of dollars

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  • Mar 18, 2026

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    Connected Kitchen, News, Next-Gen Cooking

    Brava, Maker of the ‘Cook With Light’ Smart Oven, Is Shutting Down

    Another smart oven company is saying goodbye. Brava, which makes countertop ovens that cook with light, announced today it would be shutting down. In a post shared on its Facebook

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  • Mar 17, 2026

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    AI, News, Robotics, AI & Data

    Humanoid Robots Are Coming, Just Not to Cook Your Dinner (At Least Not Yet)

    At both IFA last fall and this year’s CES in Las Vegas, there was one big trend everyone seemed to be talking about: the rise of humanoid robots from science

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  • Jan 28, 2026

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    Delivery & Commerce, News

    CookUnity Partners With Airbnb to Bring Chef-Created Meals to the Short Term Rental Market

    For much of the past decade, CookUnity has operated as a subscription-based prepared meal service built around a network of professional chefs. This week, the company made its first major

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  • Jan 27, 2026

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    3D Food Printing, AI, CES, Connected Kitchen, News

    Why Subtle Tech and Countertop Appliances, Not Robots, Are Driving Kitchen Innovation

    For much of the past couple of decades, talk of the future kitchen at CES has conjured tech-forward images of robotic arms sautéing vegetables, humanoids flipping burgers, and, more recently,

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  • Dec 18, 2025

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    AI, Aquaculture, News, Robotics, AI & Data

    Shinkei Hopes Bringing Robotics & AI to the Fishing Boat Leads to Fresher Fish and Less Waste

    Walk into almost any grocery store and, chances are, what you see in the fish case is not at peak freshness.  You wouldn’t think it’d be that way, especially in

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  • Nov 12, 2025

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    News, Robotics, AI & Data

    MongoDB Founder Eliot Horowitz on Building a WordPress for Robotics (And Why He’s Skeptical of Humanoids in the Kitchen)

    Nearly two decades ago, Eliot Horowitz launched a company with a couple of cofounders that would be pivotal in the early days of big data, helping to create more scalable

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  • Oct 20, 2025

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    Business of Food, Connected Kitchen, News

    Behind The Scenes at Good Housekeeping With Nicole Papantoniou

    Last month I was in New York City, so I decided to drop and visit the Good Housekeeping Institute. I went to visit Nicole Papantoniou, the director of the Kitchen

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  • Oct 2, 2025

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    Connected Kitchen, Education & Discovery, News, Wellness

    Your Smart Light Bulb Just Told You Your Blood Sugar’s Spiking. Is This The Smart Home’s Next Frontier?

    Nowadays, when a smart light bulb shifts from soft white to red, it usually means someone’s at the door, the dog got out, or another home automation routine has been

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