Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.71
February 27, 2019
…FedEx is collaborating with companies such as AutoZone, Lowe’s, Pizza Hut, Target, Walgreens and Walmart to help assess retailers’ autonomous same-day and last-mile delivery needs. On average, more than 60 percent of merchants’ customers live within three miles of a store location, demonstrating the opportunity for on-demand, hyper-local delivery services. “The FedEx SameDay Bot is an innovation designed to change the face of local delivery and help retailers efficiently address their customers’ rising expectations,” said Brie Carere, executive vice president and chief marketing and communications officer for FedEx. “The bot represents a milestone in our ongoing mission to solve the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.57
September 01, 2024
…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 to our platform, a partnership made possible through the relationship we have built with Uber Eats across tens of thousands of successful deliveries,” said Touraj Parang, president and COO of Serve Robotics. “Today's announcement highlights the value of Serve's world-class strategic partnerships as we work to expand our geographic footprint and deploy 2,000 robots across the U.S. in 2025.” Serve Robotics secured $30M in funding in August 2023. Investors include Uber and NVIDIA. “We're thrilled…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.92
May 23, 2019
…can actually do. Ordering in? You could get a pizza delivered to your door in ten minutes. Shopping online? Amazon’s 30-minute package delivery could get consumer products to you in record time. In theory, this is the future of the transportation and logistics industry. Yet when we go outside, the skies aren’t filled with a swarm of drones whirring above us as they carry packages to our doorsteps. Why not? The technology exists to make drone deliveries feasible, but there are plenty of impediments - regulations on airspace, package weight, the need for certified pilots - that prevent large-scale adoption…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.27
November 28, 2022
…electronics retailer Media Markt in Poland, McDonald's in Slovenia, Pizza Hut, and KFC in Poland. “The popularity of BellaBot means that customers welcome innovation, and we are ramping up our effort to bring our smart delivery bots to more consumers in Europe,” said Pudu Robotics founder and CEO Felix Zhang. Earlier this year, the company started rolling out the PuduBot 2, its shelf-serving robot designed for industrial facilities, retail stores supermarkets and more. Last year, the service robotics company raised about $155 millon in Series C funding. To date, it has raised a total of $184 million, according to Crunchbase.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.71
January 23, 2019
…rise. Evidence of robots building houses and designing rocket parts, to robot chefs that are cooking dinner and making pizzas, are on the rise. In 2019, we will be entering the age of automated kitchens and unmanned robots, all designed to improve efficiency and real-time customer experience—changing the future of industrial automation.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.64
March 17, 2022
…Castle locations. Food service management company Chartwell Higher Education is working with Pinic Works Inc. to install Pinic's robotic pizza stations in more than 300 academic institutions. New investor IMM led Bear Robotics' Series B round with participation from Cleveland Avenue LLC and other existing investors. To date, Bear Robotics said it has raised $117 million in total funding, including a $32 million Series A funding round in January 2020 led by SoftBank.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.49
August 10, 2023
…several commercial partnerships, including with Piestro, Uber Eats, and Pizza Hut. Robotics 24/7 named Serve Robotics as one of “10 Delivery Robot Companies to Watch in 2022.” Serve orders up funding, new owner Serve Robotics said it has raised a total of more than $56 million to date. Existing investors, including Uber Technologies Inc., NVIDIA Corp., and Wavemaker Partners, led the funding. New investors Mark Tompkins and Republic Deal Room also participated. Sarfraz Maredia, vice president of delivery and head of Americas at Uber, has joined Serve’s board, effective July 31. The transaction was sponsored by Montrose Capital Partners. Network…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.28
January 31, 2024
…and size for various foods, including sushi rolls, burritos, pizza, tacos and more. The robot’s rollers aim to imitate the quality of a rice sheet crafted by a sushi chef with an ideal air to rice ratio. The ASM890A also included a new LCD display that allows the user to customize the formation and wrapping of the rolls with easy-to-understand graphic displays. Robots in the commercial sushi industry AUTEC originally debuted in 1962 as Audio-Technica in Tokyo as an audio equipment manufacturer. But for the last 40 years, the company has focused on sushi robots to help the restaurant industry.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.10
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 12.71
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 12.66
June 20, 2022
…100 food and beverage brands, such as Haidilao Hotpot, Pizza Hut, Xiao NanGuo Restaurant, Grandma's House, and more, adopting its products. Keenon Robotics successfully closed Series D In September, Keenon Robotics completed a $200 million Series D financing round led by Alibaba's exclusive strategic financing and the SoftBank Vision Fund. The company achieved successful results and was ranked on the Hurun “global unicorn company” list last year. Meanwhile, Keenon Robotics was named one of the top 10 “best investment cases in advanced manufacturing” by the CVINFO 2021 Annual List. The company has launched with six global business areas: North America,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.50
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…
