Pepsi and Segway Enter the Increasingly Crowded Delivery Robot Space
One potential benefit of a city filled with people looking down at their phones is that they might be better able to see all the little delivery robots scurrying around […]
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2019 Will Be a Breakthrough Year for Food Robots
Right now the year 2019 is still (slightly) in the future, but 2019 will also be a year where we start to feel like we’re living in the future. The […]
South Korea’s Woowa Bros. Gets $320M Investment to Build More Robots
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 […]
Kiwi Explains Delivery Bot Fire, How Badly Will the Blaze Burn the Startup?
Like a Spinal Tap drummer, one of Kiwi‘s delivery robots caught fire last Friday while out and about on the campus of UC Berkeley. While no human was harmed during […]
Spoon Newsletter: LG’s HomeBrew Appliance, Spinn Update, World’s First Cell-Grown Steak
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. When it comes to smart kitchen startups, there […]
Postmates Debuts its own Bright-Eyed Delivery Robot
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 […]
What will Amazon’s New HQ Locations Mean for Food Tech?
After months of municipal pageants, rampant speculation and rumors, Amazon has finally and officially picked Arlington, Virginia and New York City to house the company’s two new headquarters. Amazon also […]
Newsletter: Tyson Enters Smart Kitchen, Data Driven Food, Vegan Butcher Shop
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. One of the things I learned in my […]
Deliv Raises $40M for Same Day Delivery, Brings on Google as Investor
Deliv, the appropriately named same day delivery service, announced today that it has closed a $40 million Series C round that includes Google as an investor. This brings the total […]
$3.5 Billion Invested in Food Delivery Startups This Year
Investors have a big appetite for food delivery companies this year. The Wall Street Journal reports on Pitchbook data revealing that $3.5 billion has been invested in food and grocery […]
Kiwi Delivery Robots Expand into Los Angeles
If you live in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, you can see sunshine, the occasional movie star, and now delivery robots shuttling food to hungry local denizens. According to […]
Uber Should Focus on Robots, not Drones
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, […]
