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Do We Really Need Robots in Our Kitchens for Convenience?
If there is any universal idea in this world, it’s that we’re all looking to get back a little time. Countless startups are built around this notion and our meal […]
Delivery Hero Agrees to Buy South Korean Food Delivery Service Woowa Bros. for $4B
Delivery Hero announced today that it has has agreed to buy South Korean food delivery rival Woowa Bros. for $4 billion, according to an article published on The Wall Street […]
Refraction Launches Robotic Lunch Delivery in Ann Arbor, MI
Given that we’ve already seen Refraction AI‘s REV-1 autonomous delivery vehicle tackle the snow covered roads of Ann Arbor, MI, it’s not really a surprise that the company announced today […]
Makr Shakr Launches “Automation Stipend” to Retrain Humans Impacted by Robots
One of the biggest questions looming over the future of an automated workforce is what happens to the human workers replaced by robots? Makr Shakr, the company behind the robot […]
Nuro and Walmart Partner for Autonomous Grocery Delivery in Houston
Walmart and Nuro announced a collaboration today in which the two companies will pilot autonomous grocery delivery in Houston, TX via Nuro’s self-driving pod-like vehicles. According to the press release: […]
Newsletter: Third-party Food Delivery Keeps on Fighting, But Its Opponent Is Getting Stronger
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Russia’s Yandex Gets Into the Delivery Bot Game
Russia-based company Yandex announced this week that it’s rolling out its own autonomous delivery robot. Dubbed the Yandex.Rover, it’s a squat, six-wheeled cooler-sized robot that can scoot around at a […]
Starship Robots Roll Out to University of Wisconsin-Madison, Can They Survive the Winter?
I’ve never been to Wisconsin, but people from there tell me that it gets cold about this time of year, I mean, it snowed there on Halloween last week, with […]
From Power to Perception, What Challenges Do Drone and Robot Delivery Need to Tackle?
The devil is in the details, as they say, and this became more apparent then ever after I moderated a panel on robot and drone delivery at GreenBiz’s Verge 19 […]
Starship’s Robots Pulled From University of Pittsburgh After Accessibility Incident
The University of Pittsburgh has paused its recently launched robot delivery program with Starship after the autonomous rovers impeded the movement of people in wheelchairs. According to WESA in Pittsburgh: […]
Royal Caribbean Wants to be King of the World for Cruise Ship Food Delivery
By now, food delivery has made its way into college campuses, baseball stadiums, and traffic jams. It’s been only ever a matter of time before cruise ships followed, and this […]
