Rise of the Kitchen Robots: Catering Robot Pioneer – Sawanobori Tetsuya Very nice documentary on kitchen robotics In recent years, tough working conditions for often-modest pay have brought serious staff shortages for Japan’s food service sector, which faces annual staff turnover of almost 30%. Sawanobori Tetsuya runs a groundbreaking business working to address this issue with cutting-edge yet… Read More »
Smart Vending and Smart Kiosks The Swiss company transforming mechanical vending machines and kiosks into smart IoT-devices with patented touchless technology, AI-powered engagement and crypto-payments, builds on large new U.S. orders. Invenda makes crypto-capable, touchless, IoT/AI vending machines and kiosks. They just raised $7.5M — with Swiss retail heavies like Walter Huber and Phillipe Gaydoul leading. We’ll post the… Read More »
We don’t know about you but all the talk about conversational AI seems to us, to be mostly talk. There is an irony in that observation. The Alexa and Google Mini’s, and Pixel Assistants are woefully inadequate at understanding nuance or building any simple suggestions based on repeated tasks. They change the volume and never remember what we… Read More »
What’s coming in hotel door lock automation? Article from Hotel Management In Brief digital key platforms can integrate with a hotel’s existing mobile app or can serve as a standalone solution third option to using and storing digital keys that does not even require the opening of a separate app Other digital service integrations boost adoption temperature control,… Read More »
Western Union and High Street UPS, FedEx Strike New Ecommerce Partnership Deals wearable Archives – Tag Google brings local lead generation to Google Assistant and Google Home Social Media Photo Kiosk – Digital Signage Products Amazon Promotes Package Pickup Lockers Technology improves patient financial security – Post-Tribune MedAvail Raises $30M for Drug-Dispensing Kiosks Supreme Court Rejects Coca-Cola Case… Read More »
Survey data from TD Bank on expected priorities and spends for restaurants in 2022 – from Chain Store Age Restaurant Market Report Investment 2022 Excerpt Restaurant operators’ top 2022 investments will include mobile ordering and more drive-thru locations. That’s according to a study conducted by TD Bank, which found that the pandemic has permanently altered the consumer-restaurant relationship, with… Read More »
Food Delivery Robot More food delivery robot news, this time from the spoon 12/6/2021 — here is pr on Serve– Wavemaker seems to be an aggregator of sorts building automation portfolio. In Brief West Hollywood is current trial 7-Eleven has been toying in California with Nuro Specific scenarios are low hanging fruit for delivery robots Wavemaker Labs incubating… Read More »
Automatic “drone” food delivery in the airport deployed. Ottobots are coming. Robotics writeup on newatlas 12/17/2021 Autonomous robots UPDATE (Dec. 20/02): A representative for the company has informed us that the Ottobots are able to find their way within the airport by initially creating a “digital twin” – a computer map – of the serviceable area, then subsequently… Read More »
Cash Accepting Self-Checkout Cash recycler hardware integrated into POS from yahoo/finance GREENSBORO, NC, Dec. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gilbarco Veeder-Root today announced a partnership with Crane Payment Innovations (CPI), a global leader in cash processing and asset management software, to offer cash automation technology with the Passport® Express Lane™ Self-Checkout system for convenience stores. Through this partnership,… Read More »
Predicting 2022 trends begins with reviewing 2021 predictions. How many were right and how many were wrong? The consensus from many respected organizations comes down to one word: contactless. We think 2022 will be a breakout year for QR codes and other contactless tokens (facial, biometric, SMS) ourselves. Some new re-invigorated drivers include social networks like TikTok and… Read More »
