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  • Oct 2, 2024

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    Delivery & Commerce, Drone, News, Robotics, AI & Data

    Serve Robotics Partners With Drone Delivery Specialist Wing To Pair Sidewalk With Aerial Delivery

    Serve Robotics Inc. and Wing Aviation announced a pilot program this week that will combine their delivery methods to extend the reach of restaurant deliveries across densely populated urban areas. According to the announcement, Serve’s robots will collect orders from restaurant curbsides and transport them to Wing’s AutoLoader hubs, where Wing’s drones will carry the…

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  • Sep 17, 2024

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    AI, News, Robotics, AI & Data

    I’ve Seen The Future of Food Logging Apps, And It’s GPT Food Cam

    If you’ve ever tried to log your food intake with an app, you probably have realized the following: For these reasons, I have not used a food-logging app for more than a few weeks, but that may soon change with GPT Food Cam. What is GPT Food Cam? In a few words, it’s a free…

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  • Sep 16, 2024

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    Connected Kitchen, News, Next-Gen Cooking

    SCHOTT Debuts New Ceramic Cooktop Glass That Can Double as Full Color Video Display

    Tired of boring black-glass cooktops? How about a cooktop that provides video cooking guides, color images, and more? That’s the idea behind SCHOTT’s new CERAN Luminoir TFT (thin film transistor) display. At last week’s IFA conference in Germany, SCHOTT announced a new TFT display technology that enabled a full-color touch screen to display high-fidelity video…

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  • Sep 9, 2024

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    AI, News, Next-Gen Cooking

    IFA Smart Kitchen Roundup: Appliance Brands Try to Tap Into AI Zeitgeist With AI-Powered Food Recognition

    This weekend at IFA, several big appliance brands used the show to tell the world that they are all in on AI, mainly through the integration of cameras into their ovens paired with software to enable personalized recipes and customized shopping lists. Siemens showed off the iQ 700 oven has a built-in camera that recognizes…

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  • Sep 6, 2024

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    News, Next-Gen Cooking

    Midea Debuts First Countertop Appliances to Use Ki Wireless Power Standard

    Seven years after the Wireless Power Consortium first started working on a standard for countertop kitchen appliances, Midea announced the first product that works with the Ki standard. According to a story in The Verge, Midea announced its Celestial Flex Series of products, which includes a blender, steamer, and kettle, at the IFA show in…

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  • Aug 19, 2024

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    Connected Kitchen, News

    Sous Vide Specialist Anova Informs Community Its App Is Going Subscription, and It’s Not Going Well

    Last week, Anova CEO Steve Svajian announced that the company will begin charging a subscription fee for new users of its sous vide circulator app starting August 21st, 2024. However, existing users who have downloaded the app and created an account before this date will not be impacted by the change. These users will be…

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  • Aug 8, 2024

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    Connected Kitchen, News

    Loch Launches Second-Gen Tiny Dishwasher With the $299 Capsule Solo

    Ever since Tetra unexpectedly got people excited about the idea of tiny dishwashers in 2018, the category has had mixed success. Some, like the Bob, have shipped but, unfortunately, haven’t made it stateside. Others, like the Shabosh, seem to be stuck in development hell, with backers wondering when they will ship. As for the dishwasher…

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  • Aug 1, 2024

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    Connected Kitchen, Foodtech, News

    Smart Kitchen Roundup: Suvie Adds Air Fry to Cooking Robot, Combustion Launches ‘MeatNet Cloud’

    It’s been a quiet summer in the world of kitchen tech, but over the past week, some interesting news has dropped. Here’s a roundup of the stories from this past week: Suvie Rolls Out Suvie 3.0 Plus With Airfry Suvie, the company behind the multi-zone kitchen cooking appliance with built-in refrigeration, announced today the launch…

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  • Jul 23, 2024

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    Delivery & Commerce, News, Robotics, AI & Data

    A Look at the Vayu One Delivery Robot, Which Navigates Bike Lanes to Deliver Your Food

    Ever since the founders of Skype launched Starship over eight years ago, we’ve seen an explosion of small-footprint delivery robots that navigate sidewalks to deliver their payloads to consumers. While these small robots sidestep many of the challenges and regulatory oversight needed for on-road travel, they are, in general, pretty small and usually only travel…

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  • Jul 11, 2024

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    News, Robotics, AI & Data

    Chef Robotics Comes Out of Stealth to Show Off Robot and Reveal Early Customers

    This week, Chef Robotics, the San Francisco-based food robotics startup founded by Rajat Bhageria, stepped out of stealth mode and into the spotlight by unveiling its robot and disclosing some of its high-profile partnerships. In an interview with The Spoon, Bhageria, an investor and technology founder, showcased Chef, a food robot that assembles cooked and…

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  • Jul 9, 2024

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    Business of Food, Education & Discovery, Foodtech, Future Food, News

    The Thimus T-Box Will Measure Brain Waves to Tell You if Someone is Lying About That New Casserole

    So you think you’re a good cook, do ya? Let me let you in on a little secret: If you’re basing that impression on what people told you about that new casserole recipe or side dish you brought to the potluck, there’s a good chance folks are just being polite. Sure, not always. Many Spoon…

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  • Jul 2, 2024

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    Connected Kitchen, News

    Samsung’s 2024 Family Hub Gets Enhanced Food Recognition Features With Latest Update

    This past week, Samsung announced they were updating software for those with a Family Hub fridge. The update has a bunch of new features, many of which were announced at CES in January, but the most interesting one is what looks to be its much-improved food recognition capability. The new computer vision-powered features were are…

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