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While much of the startup funding for food-centric robots has been for task-specific fast-automation from the likes of Picnic Robot and Chef Robotics, some of the more intriguing – and creepy – action is happening with humanoid robots. The latest entry into the “watch a humanoid robot handle kitchen tasks” files is from Figure, which…
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About a decade ago, IKEA famously released a concept video laying out its vision for the kitchen of the future. The central concept for their envisioned future kitchen was a kitchen table that not only made the experience of cooking and eating interactive with a touch interface, but also had built-in induction transmitters under the…
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Today Bellwether Coffee announced its latest electric, ventless coffee roasting machine, The Bellwether Shop Roaster. The new roaster, which is the company’s third-generation electric roasting machine, will retail starting at $14,900, about one-quarter of the price of its second-generation roasting appliance. According to the company, the Shop Roaster will be able to roast 3.3 pounds…
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Selling cultivated meat in Florida is about to become a second-degree misdemeanor. That’s because this week, the Florida legislature voted to pass a bill restricting the commercial sale of meat grown using cellular agriculture. The bill (SB 1084), which passed with a vote count of 86 Yays to 27 Nays, now heads to the desk…
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Last week, Mill unveiled its second-generation appliance, one year after introducing its high-tech food waste bin (don’t call it a composter!). The news comes as the company reaches ten thousand customers and claims it has helped divert one million pounds of food waste from landfills. Both the first and second generation Mill turn food waste…
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Around 2009, Ralph Newhouse’s company hunted down excess inventory of small electrics and would re-sell them into the secondary market. However, it wasn’t long before Newhouse realized he wanted to make his own appliances, and that’s when the Chefman we know today was born. That was just the beginning of Newhouse’s journey into creating his…
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This week, smart kitchen startup Fresco announced it had struck a deal with Middleby to integrate the Fresco Kitchen OS platform across the cooking equipment giant’s residential portfolio, starting with high-end kitchen appliance brand Viking. The first Middleby product line to incorporate the Fresco Kitchen OS platform will be the Viking RVL Collection. The RVL…
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This week at KBIS, Haier subsidiary GE Appliances focused much of its, um, energy on getting the message out about its new EcoBalance Home System, a new whole-home home systems energy management platform that it has been working on for much of the past decade. The first announcement about EcoBalance was unveiled about two weeks…
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A few years ago, Lance Lentini was a year out of college when he started working at DEKA Research & Development, a technology development firm. This wasn’t just any engineering firm; it was the incubation hub for Dean Kamen, one of America’s most renowned inventors, responsible for a plethora of inventions such as the Segway,…
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This week, food automation startup Chef Robotics told The Spoon it had reached the ten million-meal milestone, less than two years after the company’s first robot was deployed in June 2022. If you think that type of growth is achieved by steady month-over-month increases in production over time, you’re wrong. In fact, according to founder…
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If you’ve been paying attention to the June Oven website lately (and really, who hasn’t?), you may have noticed that it’s been a bit difficult to order a new smart oven from the company for most of the past 12 months. That’s because every single model listed (standard June, June Premium, and June Oven Plus)…
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At CES 2024, Panasonic announced that it had struck a deal with smart kitchen OS startup Fresco to integrate the Fresch kitchen OS platform with the Japanese brand’s multi-oven countertop cooking appliances. The deal covers the US market and will see Fresco’s technology bring a new set of connected features to Panasonic’s multi-oven products, the…
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