Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
South Korean company Woowa Bros., which runs the Baedal Minjok food delivery app, announced yesterday that it has received a $320 million from Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia Capital and GIC. This […]
Greetings all, and happy Wednesday. Delivery robot startup Kiwi is on fire. No, literally. Last week one of their self-driving robots went up in flames while roaming around the UC Berkeley Campus. […]
Each week, our editors get together for an planning call where we discuss topics, trends and stories we want to cover on The Spoon. Since we always have a blast […]
You know what you can look forward to in 2019? More robots (but more on that in a later post). Case in point: delivery service Postmates announced today that it […]
Starship announced today that it’s four-wheeled robots now autonomously deliver packages to people at their home and work, in a move that pushes the company beyond food delivery and more […]
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Uber is reportedly working to fast track food delivery by drone. Think: Burritos, burgers or boxes of baked beans zipping about overhead. Free of the congested city streets and sidewalks, […]
The Dallas city council agreed this week to a six-month pilot program that will put delivery robots on its city streets. San Francisco-based Marble will provide up to 20 of […]
A lot of transportation in old sci-fi movies was pod-based. People would travel through futuristic cities in quiet, autonomous, sleek pods that picked them up and dropped them off. What […]
Last month, I visited Boston with my sixteen-year-old son. After a few days of site seeing in a city rich with American history, I asked him what his favorite thing he’d […]
When we talk about delivery robots, it’s often a one-way transaction: a robot delivering food (or whatever) to a customer. But KimBong-jin, CEO and Founder of Korean company Woowa Brothers, […]
It’s that time again! Time for us to take a breath, take a beat, and look back at the week. At the Spoon we covered a large swathe of stories, […]
