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 »
12/21/2021 McDonald’s Corp. selling Dynamic Yield technology platform, aimed at personalization and decision engineering at kiosks and drive-thrus, to Mastercard, the companies announced Tuesday. See NRN Post McDonald’s Selling Drive-Thru Tech to IBM “The reason we’re doing this with IBM,” said Kempczinski at the time, “ is to be able to have someone that can take how far… Read More »
December 16, 2021 — We saw this wake-up call from IHL and agree with it. Audience growth factor seems to be the priority for the bad news “the sky is falling” bunch. How many twitter followers you get is a higher priority than how many actionable facts you provide your readers. Nowadays you have to apply an automatic… Read More »
Discussing the challenges of payment security in Europe; Jeremy King, Vice President, Regional Head of Europe for the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) and James Vale, Head of Payment Security Products & SME PCI DSS Compliance Programme at Barclaycard Payments. Some interesting factoids tossed out but article seems to be more about where payments are, without exposition… Read More »
Pretty big deal across the internet and widely reported. The best writeup we saw from the Spoon In brief item Media coverage of robotics in food service has been evolving over the past year, with news organizations going from gee-whiz articles about a cool new novelty to increasingly viewing the use of robotics as a direct result of… Read More »
Reprinted from GGS October 2021 Global retail sales were projected to amount to around 26.7 trillion U.S. dollars by 2022, up from approximately 23.6 trillion U.S. dollars in 2018. With such growth and disturbances across supply chains that started in 2020, many companies are looking for ways to streamline their business processes, cut costs and improve efficiency. Robotic… Read More »
Amazon Go + Starbucks Video Tour by Josef More Information Contact craig@catareno.com https://vimeo.com/382302427 https://vimeo.com/452621030 NRF 2022 Kiosk – Visit Pyramid QSR by Pyramid Computer and Intel Showcase Post Views: 634
Robotic Restaurant Kiosks Purpose-Built Cool new concept, deployed, for robotic restaurants for restaurant automation. As far as kiosks goes this project somehow weaves in the older conventional “kiosk definition”. Maybe the grain bowls are Turkish in origin. It definitely brings to mind the RMU or Remote Merchandising Unit. And not unlike a Ghost Kitchen albeit one out in… Read More »
