ZMP’s CarriRo Rover Robot Aims to Make Food Deliveries in Japan
One of the things that struck me during my recent trip to Tokyo was the lack of robots. I figured a town so futuristic would be filled with them. But […]
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The Food Tech Show: Delivery Bots Head to College
This week the Spoon gang got together to talk about some of the most interesting food tech stories of the week. On this week’s Food Tech Show we talk about: […]
Newsletter: Are Vertical Farms Ready to Grow More Than Lettuce?
Greetings from the South, ground zero for sweet tea, land of unrelenting humidity, future home of a massive new vertical farming operation. This week, an Orlando, FL-based company called Kalera […]
DoorDash Acquires Autonomous Vehicle Startup Scotty Labs
Tele-operations platform Scotty Labs announced this morning via a blog post it has been acquired by DoorDash. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Scotty Labs’ current platform allows […]
Chowbotics is Sending Sally the Salad Making Robot Off to College(s)
Chowbotics is packing up Sally the salad making robot and sending it off to college. Well, many colleges actually, as the food robotics startup is set to announce next week […]
City By the Bot: Postmates Gets Permit to Test its “Serve” Delivery Robot in San Francisco
San Francisco has given Postmates the city’s “first-ever permit for sidewalk robotics operations,” according to a story in TechCrunch. The move marks a turn in the city’s official attitude towards […]
Newsletter: Back-to-School Delivery Apps and High-Tech Sushi Burritos
While my colleagues are across the Pacific this week at the SKS Japan show, I’ve been thinking about college. Specifically, how college and university campuses are a lucrative frontier for […]
Amazon Starts Testing Autonomous Delivery Bot Scout in California
Scout, Amazon’s autonomous wheeled delivery bot, will start delivering packages today in Irvine, California, according to a blog post published by Amazon. Scout bots will operate “Monday through Friday, during […]
Aramark Acquires Campus Food-Delivery Service Good Uncle
Just in time for school to start again, food services provider Aramark announced today it has acquired Good Uncle, an on-demand meal-delivery service that drops food to students at specific […]
Kiwi Expanding its Robot Delivery to Sacramento in September
Kiwi continues to roll out its diminutive li’l food delivery robots to more cities, with plans to begin operations in Sacramento, CA in September. CBS13 first reported the story last […]
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 […]
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 […]
