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Search Results for: Kiwibot

Refraction AI Raises $4.2M for its Three-Wheeled Robot Delivery

March 8, 2021 Chris Albrecht

Robot delivery company Refraction AI announced today that it has raised $4.2 million in new seed funding. The round was led by Pillar VC, with participation from eLab Ventures, Osage […]

Albertsons Partners with Tortoise for Remote Controlled Robot Delivery

March 5, 2021 Chris Albrecht

Grocery giant Albertsons announced today that it has partnered with Tortoise to pilot remote-controlled robot grocery delivery at two Safeway stores in Northern California. Tortoise is a little different from […]

Postmates X Spun Out of Uber to Become Serve Robotics

March 2, 2021 Chris Albrecht

Uber has officially spun out its Postmates X division to become its own standalone company now called Serve Robotics. The news was first reported by TechCrunch and confirms rumblings about […]

College: the Next Big Frontier for Ghost Kitchens

February 21, 2021 Jennifer Marston

New bits over the last couple weeks have sent my brain right back to college — specifically to the college dining hall, where myself and others (everyone) used to steal […]

Imperium Drive Comes Out of Stealth with Bandwidth-Aware Teleoperation for Robots

February 18, 2021 Chris Albrecht

One of the many questions facing delivery robot startups as they come to market is how much autonomy to give the robots. Should they go full autonomous driving, even though […]

Which Smart Vending Startup Will Be Acquired Next?

February 12, 2021 Chris Albrecht

This is the web version of our email newsletter. Subscribe today to get all of the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox. There are typically two consecutive […]

DoorDash Acquires Salad Robot Maker Chowbotics

February 8, 2021 Chris Albrecht

Third party delivery service DoorDash has acquired Chowbotics, the company behind salad-making robot Sally. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Chowbotics had raised nearly $21 million in funding since […]

The Delivery Robot Market Report

February 3, 2021 Chris Albrecht

Allowing robots to handle the last mile of these deliveries could do much to make restaurant and grocery delivery faster, enable those deliveries to occur around the clock, and bring […]

Should Food Robot Startups Build Their Own Food Brand or Borrow One (or Do Both)?

February 1, 2021 Chris Albrecht

One question I ask food robot companies, especially the startups that build meal-making robots, is whether they are a food company or a technology company. The answer to that question […]

Starship Raises Another $17M, Adds UCLA and Announces its Millionth Delivery

January 27, 2021 Chris Albrecht

Delivery robot company Starship announced today that it has raised an additional $17 million in funding. Investors include TDK Ventures and Goodyear Ventures, and this brings the total amount raised […]

Ottonomy’s Delivery Robot Drops Food at Your Door and Indoors

January 26, 2021 Chris Albrecht

There are a few common threads among most delivery robot startups like Starship, Kiwibot and Postmates: They are all using cooler-sized rover ‘bots. Each of their robots has just one […]

Report: Uber Looking to Spin Off Postmates X Delivery Robot Biz

January 15, 2021 Chris Albrecht

As part of its acquisition of Postmates last year, Uber got into the delivery robot business. Now, according to a report in TechCrunch, Uber is planning to get out of […]

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