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Just when you thought Tokyo couldn’t get any more futuristic, the city’s subway system has a new robot bartender serving up drinks to commuters. The Daily Mail reported this week that the Yoronotaki company has launched the Zeroken Robo Tavern in the Ikebukuro train station. The small pop-up opened on Jan. 23 and will run…
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Sign up for it and get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox each week! I’ve been reading (and can highly recommend) the book The Passion Economy by former Planet Money-er Adam Davidson. In it, Davidson talks a lot about small companies…
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One of the most useful things about robots, we are told by the companies developing them, is that they can do the work that is too manual, repetitive and dangerous for humans. That last part is being put to the test in China, where robots have been spotted delivering food to quarantined people amid that…
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Based in the UK, the Small Robot Company is actually making its second trip to the crowd for money, and launched its second such campaign earlier this week on CrowdCube. Equity crowdfunding is a trend we’re watching closely this year. That’s where instead of traditional venture capital, startups let everyday people (with certain restrictions) invest…
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Sign up for it and get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox each week! The Spoon team descended on Vegas last week to try and find all the food and kitchen tech we could lay our hands on. We also held our…
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Normally we wouldn’t cover a gonna story. Like when a company says they are gonna do something. The Spoon likes to see actual results, not speculation, thank you very much. But when robot barista company Briggo reached out to share some of their expansion plans for the coming year, I was intrigued. Whether by luck…
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Walmart is adding another 650 Bossa Nova robots to its roster, Bloomberg reported this morning, bringing the total number of the shelf scanning bots to 1,000 by the end of this summer. Boss Nova’s robots are autonomous, six-foot tall machines equipped with 15 different cameras. As they move down a store aisle, they scan for…
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Over two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. However, only 2.5 percent of that is fresh water, and roughly 70 percent of that is used for agriculture — which also takes up approximately half of Earth’s land. With climate change and soil degradation, the amount of viable cropland is shrinking at an alarming…
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Put 2019 in the books! We all made it through another year and are looking forward to the next one. But before we pop open that bottle of bubbly and bring on 2020, we at The Spoon want to take one last look back at the year that was and give you our take on…
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For grocery retailers that operate at scale, small improvements can have a big impact on the bottom line. One of the ways to boost that bottom line, according to Trax, is better shelf inventory management. Based in Singapore, Trax uses a combination of shelf and ceiling cameras, along with computer vision, to give retailers and…
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Almost exactly a year ago, I predicted that “2019 Will Be a Breakthrough Year for Food Robots.” Whether I was right or wrong in that prognostication probably depends on how generous you are feeling. I mean, there was enough interest from startups and investors and buyers from across the food landscape to make our first…
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For tech reporters, late December is the best of times and the worst of times. The holidays are the best and give us a couple days off from the daily grind. But right after the holidays is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), so our mailboxes are now inundated with thousands of pitches touting new gadgets.…
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