10+ hour, 41+ min ago   (922+ words) The study argues that the most important food-as-health opportunities are concentrated in agricultural production and food manufacturing. These are the segments that directly shape the nutritional, environmental and functional attributes of food. Other parts of the value chain remain essential,…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (426+ words) Instacart is unveiling a new conversational AI to help solve the nightly meal-planning grind for millions of shoppers. The grocery delivery giant’s new synthetic shopping partner, Clementine, gives customers across the U.S. and Canada an AI assistant embedded directly in…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (340+ words) Innovators have been prepping us for hospitality automation for a long time. The first recorded instance of robot waiters dates back to 1983, when a Chinese restaurant in California introduced two anthropomorphic machines to serve diners. Vending machines were popularised from…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (159+ words) After years of discussion and many city council votes, several interactive digital kiosks are now live on Culver City sidewalks. The program, in partnership with Ike Smart City, will include the installation of 15 kiosks throughout the community that will provide…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (110+ words) The Business Standard Pizza robot startups are collapsing as automation faces real-world problems Pizza-making robots were once seen as the future of fast food, promising greater speed, consistency, and efficiency. But startup failures are raising questions about whether the technology…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1039+ words) The “dough feeder”. The sauce and cheese modules – even the pepperoni-sprinkler. All lay still. A now defunct duo of robots were supposed to be churning out pizzas at a Moto Pizza restaurant in Seattle. However, in May the pair were…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (464+ words) The future of fast food was supposed to look something like this: walk into a restaurant, place an order, and watch a robot assemble your pizza with machine-like precision. Instead, some of the companies that promised to automate pizza-making have…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (231+ words) Chris Murphy said he was on his lunch break from his job as a server at a restaurant in downtown Chicago when he walked to the nearby Chi-Town Deli to buy a sandwich. As he scanned the menu, he noticed…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (306+ words) Chinese engineers are zeroing in on one of the loftiest goals in applied robotics: fully automated cooking. According to CD, the basic cooking robot went through two live cooking demonstrations, stir-frying tofu as well as pork and green peppers. Per…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (551+ words) KARACHI: A customer delightedly watches as Robia wheels over to him, a rectangular tray in hand with a piping hot pizza on it. But it isn’t the food that excites the customer. Rather, it’s the humanoid robot that calmly delivers…...