San Francisco Restricts Robot Delivery
Before robots can rise up and take over the world, they will need to overcome… municipal laws. Case in point, San Francisco, where the Board of Supervisors voted to enact […]
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Delivery Platform DoorDash Hires Marble’s Robot Drivers For Food Delivery
If you live in San Francisco and order from DoorDash, you might find a friendly Marble robot on your front door step the next time you get takeout. Today DoorDash […]
Doritos By Drone? It Could Take A While
Drone delivery holds great promise, but federal and local regulators in the US are moving cautiously towards a future in which everything from beer to burritos are delivered to our home by air.
Minor Roadblocks Stand in the Way of Personal Delivery Devices
Think about how crazy your dog gets chasing a Roomba around the living room. Multiple that chaos by several hundred and you have folks on sidewalks jumping out of the […]
Grubhub’s Future Clouded by Big-Monied Competition
Once the darling of the restaurant-to-home delivery business, Grubhub’s TV commercial tagline “click, click, food,” may be in danger of becoming an internet relic. With the explosive growth of well-heeled […]
DoorDash Adds a B2B View to the On-Demand Home Delivery Market
DoorDash’s latest TV spot shows a family relaxing in their San Francisco Victorian home when they are suddenly alerted that dinner has arrived. As a micro sized red car pulls […]
Analysis: How Postmates Tackles the World of Urban Logistics for Restaurants and Beyond
Since launching in late 2014, San Francisco-based Postmates has had its own grand vision. This plan includes disrupting the way products get from any restaurant or store to their ultimate destination. […]
Podcast: The CES Smart Kitchen Wrapup Show
It’s the CES 2017 smart kitchen wrapup! Mike and Ashley talk about what they saw at this year’s big consumer tech confab in Vegas. Some of the topics they cover: […]
The Year In Food Robots
Ready for a robotic chef? While it’s early in the food robot revolution, there are a number of companies looking to fuse robotics and food. We take a look at the state of food robotics.
Wanted: Robot Delivery Drivers
The AI-powered economy may replace certain jobs, but will it create others? Robot delivery startups like Starship have posted job opportunities for “drivers” to control hundreds of automated robots. A look inside what it might take to qualify.
How Science Fiction Inspired Skype Cofounder To Start A Sidewalk Robot Company
In 2003, Ahti Heinla sat in a small office in Tallin, the capital city of Estonia, writing software. The program he was working on was called Skype, which would go on to […]
Is FoodTech Investment Shifting Towards The Connected Kitchen?
If you look at the foodtech investment landscape over the past few years, you’ll notice one – and pretty much only one – investment theme: food delivery. Yep, the vast majority […]
