Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.63
September 01, 2024
…Uber Eats. Customers who order from select Shake Shack restaurants in Los Angeles through Uber Eats may receive their order via Serve's autonomous robots. The partnership marks another step forward in the expansion of sidewalk robots on Uber Eats, which has been offering Serve's autonomous deliveries in Los Angeles since 2022. Serve Robotics, Shake Shack leaders excited about partnership The partnership is the latest in a line of moves from Serve Robotics with restaurants and delivery services. In July 2022, Serve partnered with robot pizza maker Piestro for delivery. “We are excited to add another national merchant like Shake Shack…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.50
August 11, 2024
…for every location from hospitals and retail stores to restaurants and entertainment venues.” Continuing through the entrance, the next area houses numerous large-scale LG DVLED displays demonstrating a variety of use cases, including a 217-inch UHD-quality MAGNIT display that leverages a colorful mosaic of Micro LED chips to deliver images with vivid colors, contrast and ultra-fine detail. Visitors then proceed to the EV charger section to learn how multiple models of LG’s recently-launched electric vehicle charging stations suit commercial charging needs for various B2B customers from hotels and restaurants to hospitals and schools to stadiums and offices. The nearby computing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.59
August 04, 2024
…challenges to the full airport experience, including accessing shops, restaurants, accessible restroom facilities, and other amenities. “B.C. is home to incredible companies that are developing innovative technology and practical solutions that can make people’s lives better,” said Brenda Bailey, B.C. minister of jobs, economic development and innovation. “Through the Integrated Marketplace, we’re helping A&K Robotics to continue developing the tools they need to continue to grow, while supporting people living with mobility challenges access the traveling services they need.” Delivered by Innovate BC, the Integrated Marketplace works to bolster technological development in the province by linking strategic buyers from some…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.62
July 14, 2024
…industry, Chef's go-to market is food manufacturing - not restaurants - where the company can partially automate a food operation and add value in production to customers without requiring 100% full autonomy from the get-go. This strategy can enable Chef’s engineers to train ChefOS on real-world data accumulated from robots deployed at customer production sites in six cities across North America. To date, Chef has already completed over 20 million servings in production. With every meal the robots assemble in production facilities, Chef's core AI models for food manipulation improve. The robots act as data ingestion engines to train Chef's…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.58
June 20, 2024
…fields make up most of the land area, while restaurants and stores inside terminals are compressed into expensive real estate. “When I think of an airport, it's like a small city,” said Cole Wolfson, director of the xBridge innovation center at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). “There's just about every industry that you can think of that operates here. And so there's boundless opportunities to find new and better, or more efficient ways of doing things.” As the director of xBridge, Wolfson helps innovative technologies spread their wings and find practical use cases to perch on. With such a diversity of…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 28.36
June 19, 2024
…Be Ottonomy said it creates autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that can help businesses with staffing shortages for retail and restaurant industries. Its fully-autonomous Ottobots can deliver food and beverages, groceries, and packages for indoor and outdoor applications including curbside delivery, first mile, last mile, airports, malls, casions, and intralogistics across large industrial manufacturing campuses. Ottonomy robots are available on a robotics as a service (RaaS) model. The company said its business customers get access to a quicker, safer, and more economical delivery option as compared to traditional third party delivery services. Above all, Ottonomy said its robots are set to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.66
June 14, 2024
…fabrication plants. In addition to its latest materials conveyance robot, PUDU also produces robots for food and beverage retail, restaurant order delivery, as well as cleaning service industry applications. Want to learn more about machine vision? This article was featured in the August 2024 Robotics 24/7 Special Focus Issue titled “Machine vision to increase robot precision.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.09
June 04, 2024
…I expect to even see things like retail and restaurants still popping up even stronger than I had been aware of. There’s a lot of opportunity out there. Manufacturing and cobot increased attention We’re also seeing a lot about higher investments in the manufacturing sector with automation projects. What is A3 seeing about the manufacturing industry? Burnstein: I think you're going to see continued growth in manufacturing in part because of reshoring of parts of the supply chain. I just think there's so many more opportunities in this sector. I'll tell you another thing from Automate, I was stunned by…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.37
March 11, 2024
…applications, ranging from hospitals and homes to factories, stores, restaurants and more. “Robotics Foundation Models require access to a vast amount of high-quality multimodal data,” said Peter Chen, CEO and co-founder at Covariant. “These models require data that reflects the wide range of information a robot needs to make decisions, including text, images, video, physical measurements and robot actions.” Since 2017, Covariant’s previous AI models have enabled robots to operate in a commercially meaningful way across a diverse set of warehouse operations and industries. These robots have been able to adapt to their environment, understand the scenes they are faced…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.99
February 05, 2024
…new director, Peter Haas. He comes to MassTech from restaurant robotics company Avendly, where Hass most recently served as CEO. Prior to his startup work, Haas served as the research director for computer vision AI software at IDC and the associate director of Brown University’s Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative. He has spoken at The Economist’s World Ahead Gala and DHL Robotics Days, and he was on the qualifying teams for both the AI and robotic Avatar X-PRIZE competitions. “The robotics cluster in Massachusetts is leading the way among robotics clusters across the nation. It is a powerhouse in warehouse and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.24
January 31, 2024
…on visual sensors and more color options. In 2024, restaurant and retail customers expect seamless experiences tailored to their preferences by brands that can anticipate their next desire. Businesses facing an unprecedented labor shortage are turning to robots to deliver such an experience. In addition to delivering food and returning items, KettyBot can attract, greet and guide customers in dynamic environments while generating advertising revenue, reducing overhead and enhancing the in-store experience. KettyBot in the restaurant robotics industry “We hear from various businesses that it’s hard to maintain adequate service levels due to staff being overwhelmed and stretched thin,” said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 39.88
January 31, 2024
…company has focused on sushi robots to help the restaurant industry. After an employee contest in the 1980s yielded a children’s toy sushi maker, AUTEC combined its audio manufacturing and sushi robotics background to develop the world’s first automatic sushi maker for home use in 1984 with the ASM50 Nigirikko. In the present, AUTEC provides several robots to help restaurants with their sushi-making production. The ASM890A is the latest offering by the company that aims to increase business efficiency and simplify operations while maintaining levels of authenticity in the sushi making craft. Automation in the restaurant industry AUTEC also recently…
