Dive Brief: Starship Technologies, a leader in the robot delivery industry, has raised nearly $100 million since the end of January, the company announced Monday. The company raised $57 million from the European Investment Bank and $42 million in a Series B funding round led by NordicNinja, a Japanese-Nordic venture capital firm, and Taavet+Sten, a venture …
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Grubhub is teaming up with Russian tech giant Yandex to deliver food to students and others on US college campuses with the help of autonomous robots. The companies have agreed a multi-year partnership, and the robots will start dropping off orders on select campuses this fall. Grubhub works with more than 250 colleges across the country.https://www.youtube.com/embed/sJk6Fl-4bn0?rel=0 Yandex says its robots can …
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The virus pandemic did not change the trajectory of where the restaurant industry was headed, but it did force years of change in a short period. Restaurants are embracing artificial intelligence and automation to revolutionize their business models. A new report via payments company Square titled “Future of Restaurants” discusses an overview of how technology is …
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US food delivery service DoorDash has announced its acquisition of Chowbotics, the creator of a fresh food and salad robot, as it looks to explore how automation can support the growth of restaurants. While the companies did not disclose the terms of the deal, Chowbotics was valued at $46 million in 2018, according to data firm PitchBook. Chowbotics …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The city of Sacramento announced Tuesday it plans to bring food delivery robots to town as part of a pilot program with company Kiwi Campus, Inc. The service works much like other food delivery companies, such as DoorDash, Grubhub and Postmates. But, instead of a person delivering the food, a robot drops it off …
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DoorDash has been on an acquisition tear of late, with Scotty Labsas its latest target. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this comes after DoorDash acquired Caviar in a deal worth $410 million. Scotty Labs, a tele-operations company that is working on technology to enable people to remotely control self-driving cars, raised a $6 million seed round from …
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As the second day of the Uber Elevate summit kicked off in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, the transportation company unveiled an important update about the future of your burgers and fries. Uber Eats will begin testing food drone delivery in San Diego, CA this summer. The first food partner for the test is McDonald’s, but the program will …
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Gatik AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that came out of stealth Thursday with $4.5 million in funding and Walmart as a customer, is aiming for the sweet middle spot in the world of logistics. The company, which operates out of Palo Alto and Toronto, isn’t deploying autonomous delivery bots built for sidewalks, nor is it aiming for self-driving …
If you’re a student at UC Berkeley, the diminutive rolling robots from Kiwi are probably a familiar sight by now, trundling along with a burrito inside to deliver to a dorm or apartment building. Now students at a dozen more campuses will be able to join this great, lazy future of robotic delivery as Kiwi expands …
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(Reuters) – FedEx Corp this summer plans to begin testing a robot to handle home deliveries for partners ranging from Walmart Inc to Pizza Hut. Shippers, retailers and restaurants are experimenting with robots, drones and self-driving cars in a bid to use automation to drive down the high cost of delivering gadgets, groceries and even …
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