We Go On an Alt-Snack Food Flight, Plus Robots and a Neat Bento Box
Summer is finally here in the Pacific Northwest. I’m writing this on what is supposed to be the hottest day of the year in these parts and it is awesome. […]
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FreshDirect to Use Fabric’s Robots for Grocery Fulfillment in D.C. Area
Online grocer FreshDirect announced today that it has partnered with Fabric to build out an automated, robotic grocery e-commerce facility in the D.C. Metro Area. This is the first public […]
Flytrex Trialing Delivery by Drone in North Dakota and North Carolina
Restaurant meal delivery by drone always seems to be just over the horizon, as it were. While there are a number of tests from different companies going on around the […]
Restaurant Robots Used to Be About Labor, Now They’re About Hygiene
This was one of the takeaways from our virtual fireside chat on The State of Restaurant Robotics yesterday. Linda Poulliot, CEO of Dischcraft Robotics, and Clatyon Wood, CEO of Picnic, […]
With Postmates, Uber Gets into the Delivery Robot Game
The big news this week was that Uber is acquiring rival food delivery service Postmates for $2.65 billion in an all-stock deal. There is a lot to be determined about […]
Refraction AI Officially Launches Robot Grocery Delivery in Ann Arbor, MI
Refraction AI, which makes the three-wheeled autonomous REV-1 delivery vehicle, announced today that it is expanding beyond restaurant meals and into grocery delivery. The company’s robots are delivering around a […]
From Restaurants Floors to Your Front Door, Food Robots are on the Rise
This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. A friend of mine was walking […]
Delivery ‘Bots from Starship and Postmates Spotted in the Wild on Both Coasts
We’ve been covering the acceleration of robots being rolled out for contactless food deliveries in different cities across the country. As these li’l rover ‘bots become more public, the public […]
Just in Time for a Contactless World, Keenon Robotics has 6,000 Food Server Robots Already in Action
As restaurants across the country start to reopen, one question we’ve been asking is, assuming people will even want to go back into restaurants, how will they want to be […]
Chowbotics Deploying 50 New Salad Making Robots to Hospitals Across the Country
Chowbotics announced today that it is deploying 50 new salad making robots to hospitals across the country. The company said that by the end of June, it will have a […]
Refraction’s “Goldilocks” Size Could Make it Pretty Great for Robot Grocery Delivery
Contactless delivery as a concept, didn’t exist prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The phrase describes the way of delivering food and other goods without humans having to interact with or […]
Wait, Robot Delivery Companies Charge the Same Commissions as Human Delivery?
One of the key selling points of our delivery robot future was that it would be less expensive than existing human efforts. Yes, automation would take some human jobs, but […]
