Newsletter: I May Have Been Wrong About DIY
This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Sign up for it here! Spoon readers may recall that a couple weeks back I speculated on DIY and the IKEA-ization […]
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Refraction Launches Three-Wheeled Delivery Robot That’s Bigger Than a Rover, but Smaller Than a Car
When it comes to autonomous delivery robots, size matters. Full-sized self-driving cars can travel on most major roads and go long distances, but may not work well in dense, traffic-congested […]
Kencko Raises $3.4M Seed Round for Powdered Fruit and Vegetable Packets
Kencko, a nutrition startup making direct-to-consumer packets of powdered fruits and vegetabes, announced today that it has raised $3.4 million in seed funding. The round was led by NextView Ventures, […]
Starship More Than Doubled its Robot Delivery Fleet at George Mason University
High school graduation happened last night in my town, which means in a matter of months, most of those kids will be heading off to college. And maybe, if they […]
Report: Uber Exploring Nuro Partnership for Self-Driving Restaurant Food Delivery
Just in time for Uber’s IPO today comes word from The Information (paywalled) that the mobility company has been chatting with autonomous vehicle company Nuro about a food delivery partnership. […]
Video: “Food is Very, Very Dumb Compared to Robots.” But Automation Can Still Help It Taste Better
“Food is very, very dumb compared to robots.” Ali Bouzari made his case onstage at our ArticulATE food robotics conference last month. “It’s incredibly complex, it’s cumbersome, unyielding, and frustratingly […]
Washington State to Allow Delivery Robots on Sidewalks
If you live in the state of Washington, you could soon be walking alongside delivery robots on the sidewalk, thanks to new legislation signed today by Washington governor Jay Inslee. […]
Weekly Spoon: ArticulATE Takeaways, a Robot Market Map, Restaurants Love Plant-Based Proteins
This is the post version of our weekly newsletter. If you’d like to get the weekly Spoon in your inbox, you can subscribe here. To be honest, I’m a little robot-ed out. […]
StixFresh Can Double Your Avocado’s Shelf Life with a Sticker
Whenever I head to the grocery store I can’t leave without buying a bunch of bananas. But I find that a) they all get ripe at exactly the same time, and b) […]
Blendid’s Smoothie Robot Heads Off to the University of San Francisco
If you want to see the future of robots, go to college. I don’t mean become a student and take classes, I mean just literally head to a college campus […]
Starship Delivery Robots to Roam Around Northern Arizona University
Starship announced today that it is heading off to (another) college. Starting today, Starship will deploy 30 little delivery robots to Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, AZ. The school’s […]
