Dallas Will Be Home to Cowboys and Delivery Robots
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 […]
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DoorDash Wants to do Last-Mile Logistics for Everything, Not Just Food
To say that the food delivery market is heating up would be an understatement. It’s already red-hot, and competitors are using every tool in their toolbox — self-driving robots, drones, […]
Mod Pods! NEXT Future Transportation Announces Mobile Lockers
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 […]
“How’s My Programming?” Kiwi Founder Lists Personal Number on Delivery Bots
Robots, as we have noted, can work longer hours and haul more stuff than people can. But robots can also bring animosity to a community who may not appreciate potential […]
Three Strategies Companies Are Using to Tackle Produce Waste in the Supply Chain
You’ve probably heard the widely-quoted factoid that the majority of food waste happens in the home. From grocery over-purchasing to over-zealous expiration dates to just plain forgetting to cook that cabbage […]
Alibaba and JD.com Releasing More Robots Across China
Two Chinese e-commerce giants are making separate moves that will see robots running packages around — and running restaurants — as automation continues to rise around the world. First up: Alibaba […]
Soft Robotics Gets a Firm Grip on $20 Million
Soft Robotics has raised $20 million to expand the use of its “air actuated soft elastomeric end effectors.” Put another way–the company just raised a bunch of money for its […]
Sony and Carnegie Mellon Team Up to Work on Food Robots
Sony Corporation announced yesterday that it has hooked up with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to collaborate on artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics research that will initially focus on “optimizing food […]
Will DoorDash’s New $535M Mean More Robots?
Restaurant delivery startup, DoorDash, announced today that it has raised a whopping $535 million Series D round. The new funding was led by SoftBank (more on that in a minute) […]
Grocery-Packing Robots Get Funding Boost with $20M for CommonSense Robotics
We already know that robots can harvest our crops, cook us a medium-rare cheeseburger, bring us our takeout, and even make us a cappuccino (extra foam). In fact, it seems […]
CES: Toyota and Ford Push Autonomous Delivery Vehicles
The future of retail is delivery-driven.
Food Industry a Big Buyer as Robot Orders Rose to Record Levels
More than 27,000 robots were ordered in the first nine months of this year.
