Category: Robotics, AI & Data
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Bear Robotics is looking for a helping hand as it seeks to strengthen its position in the food robotics space and beyond. It just got one by acquiring Kinisi Robotics, a startup that makes wheeled humanoid robots. The company announced this week that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi, a Bristol-based startup…
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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 the space, gaining traction through partnerships with restaurant operators big and small. The news of Picnic’s bankruptcy was first reported by GeekWire, which uncovered a…
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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 Spoon the acquisition gives the company an entry point into a segment it had previously chosen not to pursue on its own: robotic makelines designed…
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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 come and go in this space. One company that has gone and appears to be coming back again is Creator. For those new to the…
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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 fiction fantasy to a powerful, multifunctional tool for work and home. Whether it was folding clothes, pouring drinks, or cooking a meal, the past year…
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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 places like Seattle, where I live, because such care is given to getting the fish to market quickly. But according to a new venture-backed startup…
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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 solutions, lower costs and also reducing the need for deep technical expertise needed in setting up big and messy databases. The company, which would eventually…
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There’s a new delivery robot in town, and its name is Dot. DoorDash announced the new delivery bot today, confirming months of rumors that they were working on their own robot. The robot, developed entirely by its internal DoorDash Labs team, is the delivery company’s first homegrown bet on delivery automation and street-level autonomy, signaling…
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One of the defining characteristics of early successful food robots has been focus. Whether it’s the Flippy burger-flipping robot, Bear’s front-of-house robotic waiters, or the Autocado avocado-coring and processing robot, the ability of these focused-task robots to automate one or two core functions hyper-efficiently has been a – if not the – key ingredient for…
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For those of you who are skeptical about whether drone delivery will ever become a common way to deliver your pizza or groceries, I’m there with you. Several key factors need to be in place to ensure drones can deliver items quickly, at low cost, and, perhaps most of all, safely. One of the key…
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With this week’s news that Little Caesars pizza is partnering with Serve to deliver pizza, it’s clear that robotic delivery, whether on sidewalks, underground, or in the air, is fast becoming more mainstream. Despite many of these startups working on technology for close to a decade, the robot food delivery process still has a cumbersome…
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For the past five or so years, the emails have landed in my inbox on a steady basis, nearly every month. They’ve included updates on a small startup building a countertop cooking robot named Posha. The emails, almost always written by the company’s CEO and co-founder, Raghav Gupta, detail progress, both big and small, ranging…
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