Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.36
November 03, 2021
…announced a multi-year partnership with FedEx and has piloted pizza delivery with Domino’s in Houston. The company said its latest funding will enable it to expand its team, deploy its system at scale, and address “long-standing pain points” and shifting consumer behavior accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Investors look to local delivery Tiger Global Management led Nuro's Series D round. Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Management & Research Co., Gaorong Capital, Google, Kroger, SoftBank Vision Fund 1, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., Toyota's Woven Capital unit, and other existing investors participated. Nuro raised $500 million in Series…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.98
October 25, 2021
…campus eateries: Qdoba, 1891 Bistro, and the new Paavo’s Pizza. A&T’s students, faculty and staff can now use the Starship Food Delivery app (available on iOS and Android) to order food and drinks to be delivered on campus, within minutes. The service will be free of delivery fees, which will be covered for students by the university for two years and works with student meal plans. with the goal to expand additional retail locations by next spring. “We are excited to be the first to bring this innovative service to a historically black college and university campus,” said Joseph Burdi,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.37
October 21, 2021
…Flippy Wings addresses a large market including major wing, pizza, sport, and family chicken brands, said the company. Miso's artificial intelligence powers products including Flippy, Flippy Wings, CookRight Grill, and its Automated Beverage Dispenser. The company is primarily funded by individual investors and is one of the most successful crowdfund stories in history. With nearly 12,000 shareholders, Miso has raised more than $30 million in crowdfunding to date. Miso Robotics said it is currently in its Series D round, which kicked off with a market valuation of $350 million— a $270 million increase since their $80 million Series C open.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 59.13
August 27, 2021
Americans eat more than 4 billion pizzas each year, according to IBIS World. Last month, Basil Street Café Inc. announced a reservation period for its Series A+ financing and crowdfunding round. The Los Angeles-based startup has developed automated pizza kitchens, or APKs, 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 59.82
August 18, 2021
Robot-made pizzas are coming. Picnic announced at the International Pizza Expo and Conference yesterday that it is accepting pre-orders from U.S. customers for its Picnic Pizza System. The Seattle-based company also said it has completed successful pilots and deployments with customers in the 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.02
August 07, 2021
…But for an AV or robot to deliver a pizza, package or person to their destination, they have to be able to navigate tight spaces and unknown driver intentions. The team developed a method to model different levels of driver cooperativeness — how likely a driver was to pull over to let the other driver pass — and used those models to train an algorithm that could assist an autonomous vehicle to safely and efficiently navigate this situation. The algorithm has only been used in simulation and not on a vehicle in the real world, but the results are promising.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.44
June 15, 2021
…company in March, and Dominos is testing Nuro for pizza delivery in Houston. Nuro said that its collaboration with FedEx is a major step in entering parcel logistics. The exponential growth of e-commerce has accelerated the demand for reliable, autonomous solutions throughout all stages of the supply chain, the partners said. “Working with FedEx—the global leader in logistics—is an incredible opportunity to rethink every aspect of local delivery,” said Cosimo Leipold, head of partnerships at Nuro. “This multi-year commitment will allow us to truly collaborate and bring Nuro’s powerful technology to more people in new ways, and eventually reach large-scale…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.17
April 26, 2021
…area around it.” “To use another analogy, a small pizza box is 1 sq. ft.,” he said. “At 2,000 feet-per-second coverage or one weed in 2,000 boxes, the robot could spray an area of four to six boxes rather than the whole area. That's not only beneficial to the bottom line but also sustainability.” The system enables a farmer to control the amount of nutrients sprayed, droplet size, and even distance from the plants by automatically adjusting the volume, pressure, and height of the boom, which is attached to the sprayer and can measure up to 120 feet wide with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.81
April 21, 2021
…launched Version 4.0 of its eponymous robot and partnered with Segway. Chipotle invested in Nuro last month, and Domino's Pizza is testing deliveries with the Nuro R2 in Houston. In January, Starship Technologies raised $14 million and added more college campuses to the locations it serves. The company said it has completed 1 million deliveries and has partnered with DoorDash.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.29
March 24, 2021
…we're looking for partners like Lowe's, Home Depot, or Pizza Hut as potential users of the robot,” he said. “So if we're not using the robot at a particular time, maybe someone else can use it to make deliveries to their customers.” “How do you chop away to a core MVP use case that makes good sense?” he said. “Starship is doing a good job of that—they're focused on universities, where you know the landscape and are dealing with more tech-savvy folks.” “FedEx is also testing drones with Google Wing in Christianburg, Va., which is a small town where we're…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.15
December 02, 2019
…to expand it on larger scale. FedEx collaborated with Pizza Hut to test FedEx’s SameDay Bot for pizza delivery. We can also see some similar trends related to delivery robots which are working towards last mile delivery issue and its solution. Driverless delivery start-up Nuro just got a $940 million in financing from Japan’s SoftBank Vision Fund and has partnered with Kroger to deliver the groceries and with Domino’s to deliver the pizzas. KiwiBot is providing similar services for the university campus. The University of California at Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles were two of the earliest…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.98
September 26, 2019
…“30-minutes or free” standard that used to be a pizza delivery promise. If you could begin deliveries only blocks from your customer's door instead of miles, that time to order completion could be drastically reduced. Again, that's where the idea of local distribution hubs solves e-commerce challenges. When the order starts its journey three blocks away, there's no need to wait until the end of the day for delivery. Rising Cost of Conventional DC Lands We are running out of space for large distribution centers. Major metropolitan areas have for years seen DCs circled around the outskirts, clustered near major…
