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…chain. Goods must move from restaurants, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and other points of origin before traveling to customers or users. They most go through a complex series of transitions to successfully reach their final destinations. These items are not just parcels—they could be perishables such as groceries or food for dinner that evening. Typically, last-mile delivery requires a fleet…
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…as more fast-food and fast-casual restaurants look to robotics for speed, safety, and staffing help. “Automated food kiosks are accepted globally as a viable option for meals on the go,” stated Deglin Kenealy, CEO of Basil Street. “As the need for contact-free solutions rises in the U.S., we have successfully combined America’s favorite meal with patented technology to deliver restaurant-quality…
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…company has more than 130 restaurants nationwide and over 4,300 team members preparing food daily from fresh ingredients. It filed for an initial public offering in June and is valued at $1.78 billion. The companies said the acquisition will enable sweetgreen “to reimagine healthy fast food with even better quality, consistency, and efficiency.” “Spyce and sweetgreen have a shared purpose,”…
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…hospitality, entertainment, theme park, and restaurant industries. “This is a huge milestone for Picnic, and we couldn’t be more excited to announce commercial availability,” stated Clayton Wood, CEO of Picnic. “The team has been working tirelessly with customers and strategic partners over the past year to fine-tune the Picnic Pizza System. We’re very proud of the solution that we have…
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…vary at the participating campus restaurants, and payment options include credit and debit cards and the student meal plan. At each campus location, local students are hired and trained to join the Starship team. “Starship was an essential service for many students during the pandemic,” said Westgarth. “We consistently broke delivery records, even with fewer students on campus. We heard…
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…$14.2 million in Pudu Technology Inc., which makes service robots for restaurants. In May, the company invested in the Series C round for 3D vision company Mech-Mind Robotics. Meituan is hiring up to 60,000 more people this year as it scales up.
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Quick-service restaurants are facing record labor shortages, cost and hygiene concerns, and competitive pressures to improve the customer experience. Many are looking to emerging automation to meet the demand for speed and efficiency. Miso Robotics Inc. today announced a partnership with manufacturer Lancer Worldwide to build an intelligent beverage dispenser for future commercial kitchens. While 60% to 70% of sales…
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…integration of robots in banks, restaurants, hospitals, hotels, senior living facilities, and other enterprise and small businesses settings. To meed different companies' needs, RobotLab is offering two hardware versions of Pepper: Pepper Premium and Pepper Premium+Nav. The two humanoid robots share the same underlying hardware, with Pepper Premium+Nav also allowing for autonomous navigation, while Pepper Premium serves stationary applications. In…
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…Pollo Loco Holdings Inc. said it would be the first national restaurant chain to offer “door-to-backyard” drone delivery. It is working with Tel Aviv, Israel-based drone provider Flytrex Aviation Ltd. and will begin the pilot with 10 restaurants in Southern California.
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…established partnerships with leading grocery, restaurant, and pharmacy retailers. It claimed that its driverless vehicles can make streets safer and provide convenience. In November 2020, Nuro raised $500 million in Series C funding. More recently, Chipotle Mexican Grill invested in the company in March, and Dominos is testing Nuro for pizza delivery in Houston. Nuro said that its collaboration with…
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…service lets retailers and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) cater to a wider customer base with faster, safer, and cheaper deliveries than ever before. The company added that it is helping to set new drone safety standards and regulations, as well as to bring simpler, quicker, and greener autonomous delivery. Flytrex works with regulators From 2018 to 2020, Flytrex participated in the…
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…applications including delivering food in restaurants, monitoring security, and disinfection. PuduTech said it will use its latest funding for technology research, expanding its product line, and developing domestic and foreign markets. The company, which was founded in 2016, noted that half of its 1,000 employees are devoted to research and development and that it has applied for more than 600…
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…is very important,” added Nikovski. “Restaurants are a prime example of high mix and low volume; just look at the menu. Such customization is not achievable with current robotics technology. You cannot really use approaches based on CAD models for food. Humans don't need geometric models, and machine learning is likely to help robots learn or estimate.” “We're starting with…
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…invested $15 million in PuduTech's restaurant robots. Meituan also participated in last week's Series C round for 3D vision firm Mech-Mind Robotics. Meituan mainly uses human delivery drivers, but it is working on autonomous vehicles and drones. Source: Getty Images Delivery robots jostle for growing market The global market for delivery robots will grow from $212 million in 2021 to…
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…the past year. The quick-service restaurant, as well as campus food provider Sodexo, has evaluated the effect of robots on customer experience in its partnership with Kiwibot. The company is looking for additional partners. The delivery robots are already on college campuses and the streets of Santa Monica, Calif. By May 2021, customers can use Shopify-powered portals to use Kiwibot's…
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