Starship Appoints New CEO
Robot delivery company Starship announced today that Alastair Westgarth has been appointed the company’s new CEO, effective immediately. Prior to joining Starship, Westgarth was CEO at Alphabet’s Loon, which was […]
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South Korea: Hyundai and Woowa Brothers Partner for Delivery Robots
Hyundai Motors and Woowa Brothers announced this past weekend that they are partnering to develop last-mile food delivery robots. Woowa Brothers, which operates the popular Baedal Minjok food delivery service […]
Postmates X Spun Out of Uber to Become Serve Robotics
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 […]
The Delivery Robot Market Report
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 […]
Starship Raises Another $17M, Adds UCLA and Announces its Millionth Delivery
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 […]
Report: Uber Looking to Spin Off Postmates X Delivery Robot Biz
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 […]
Delivers AI Robots Making Deliveries in Turkey
You know those RVs that have a map of the U.S. on their spare tire cover? The maps illustrating where those driving nomads have been? I should get a map […]
Will 2021 Be a Big Year for Food Robots? (Yes!)
Two years ago, I predicted that 2019 would be a breakout year for food robots. Let’s just say that I was a little premature with that particular prognostication. In my […]
The Autonomous Middle Mile is Far From Middle of the Road
This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe today to get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox! When it comes to self-driving vehicles, […]
Panasonic Testing Delivery Robots in Japanese Smart Town
Electronics giant Panasonic announced today that it has started testing autonomous delivery robots on public roads in the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town in Japan. Initial tests started in November; the […]
Newsletter: Third-party Food Delivery Keeps on Fighting, But Its Opponent Is Getting Stronger
This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe and get all the best food tech news and analysis delivered directly to your inbox! It’s getting to be that […]
Behind The Bot: Forksy’s Mike Ushakov
Here at the Spoon, we read about and try out new foodbots all the time. This is Behind the Bot, a series looking at the stories of people behind the […]
