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 11.34
April 23, 2024
…all about serious competition; it's also about fun and community. This sentiment reverberated through the halls during Union 73's Pizza & Robotics night, offering a slice of engagement for every participant.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.25
January 31, 2024
…high-traffic environments by global brands such as KFC, MediaMarkt, Pizza Hut and Walmart. These companies use the robot to deliver orders, market menu items and products and welcome guests. New features in the KettyBot Pro The KettyBot Pro is the latest addition to Pudu’s fleet of commercial service robots. The robot features several new product features, including: Passability upgrade: A new RGBD depth camera - with an ultra-wide angle that boosts the robot’s ability to detect and avoid objects - reduces KettyBot’s minimum clearance from 55cm to 52cm under ideal conditions. This allows the robot to navigate through narrow passageways…
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 9.71
September 14, 2023
…a $5 burrito or a whole truck for one pizza.” With Autonomous Pickup, Flytrex drones can pick up orders from shops via a dropdown wire. They can then fly directly to customers’ homes to deliver the goods, removing the human component from the delivery process. “Drones are only 20% of what we do,” noted Bash. “There's also the servers, cloud infrastructure, and operations teams, and everything has to work together.” Several of Flytrex’s restaurant and retailer affiliates have already realized its vision of a fully autonomous delivery process, including Unilever’s The Ice Cream Shop, Papa Johns, Freddy’s Frozen Custard and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.48
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 7.83
April 10, 2023
…space is becoming more common today—see Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. In the case of Amazon and Kohl's, it's not on the sales side but the returns side. Why would Kohl's allow Amazon users to return items to its stores? Returns helped its foot traffic for buying. How have this evolution and micro-fulfillment affected warehouse processes? Kohli: Robotics and automation can make half their problems go away. As human beings, we think of different brands, but the challenges for warehouse managers are how to manage resources and getting personnel trained on picking and packing. The analogy here is that robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 62.55
January 24, 2023
…Hatco Corp. to develop a compact fully autonomous robotic pizza-making system designed for commercial markets. The companies said they will be displaying their joint system at the NAFEM Show next month in Chicago. The system combines Nala Robotics' cooking automation and design technology with Ovention's Shuttle Oven and Hatco's Flav-R 2-Go Pizza Locker System within a 10' x 10' footprint. Ovention, which develops compact ovens, is a subsidiary of Hatco Corp. Nala Robotics is based in Arlington Heights, Ill. It develops robotic systems designed for the kitchen, including Pizzaiola, its pizza-making robot system, Spotless, its dishing washing robot system, and…
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 40.24
November 18, 2022
Picnic Works, a Seattle-based developer of pizza-making robot systems, this week launched a new network program designed to bring together technology companies to help it automate more kitchens. “The new partner network offers leaders in food technology, services, ingredients, and more the opportunity to combine strengths and better serve kitchen operators in their efforts to automate kitchen operations to increase profitability and customer satisfaction,” Picnic Works said in a statement. The company already has a list of partners it is working with but is inviting more to join, as long as their business falls within one of six categories: kitchen…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 74.98
November 02, 2022
…companies said they are working together to create factory-built pizza kitchens for commercial foodservice providers. ContekPro will manufacture kitchens with an integrated Picnic Pizza Station that uses robotic automation to assemble up to 100 pizzas per hour with just one member of the kitchen's staff. ContekPro said it uses leading-edge software and proprietary applications to run efficient and sustainable manufacturing operations. The modular kitchens are designed and manufactured in the U.S. ContekPro builds kitchens fast The company added it focuses on predictable scheduling, transparent processes, and cost accuracies while producing kitchens 50% faster than traditional construction methods. With more than…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 73.06
September 10, 2022
Picnic Works has added Domino’s Pizza Enterprises LTD to its growing customer base. The Seattle-based company announced earlier this week that a Domino’s store in Berlin is trialing the company’s pizza making machine. The goal of the pilot in Berlin is to understand how automated pizza assembly can assist Domino’s employees in producing fresh, consistent pizza as efficiently as possible, the companies said. This program is part of an initiative between Picnic and Domino’s that started in 2021 that has included research, product testing and multi-national planning. After workers load the dough, the Picnic station takes care of applying the…
