Pizza Delivery Robots Pizza Delivery From Starship reported by Mashable — Starship Technologies is sending robots to college campuses, delivering everything from Starbucks to Panda Express. Link to Video Robot Food Delivery at Universities with Sodexo From Progressive Grocer August 2021 — In yet another example of how robot food delivery is gaining traction in the United States, Kiwibot,… Read More »
Digital Payments at Giant Eagle Now Accepted from Paypal and Venmo From Progressive Grocer August 2021 In Brief According to Blackhawk 59% surveyed using digital wallet Of all tools, 48% using QR codes Giant Eagle lets them pay with mobile app Digital payments are driving loyalty rates up 63% more likely to shop where digital payment provided 73%… Read More »
Amazon VISA Surcharge News From PaymentDive August 2021 — Amazon takes on Visa by imposing a surcharge in area and leaving open the possibility of extending it elsewhere to fight what it calls “Visa’s high cost of payments.” In Brief: Singapore Amazon customers are the first to see 0.5% surcharge on VISA payment use From Amazon — To… Read More »
Frank Mayer is pretty good at laying out the sellable and positive factors of a product and here is their latest blog entry on Smart Lockers. Its more not why others are using but why you should be using. We’ve seen iterations from Panasonic lockers deployed. Here is some additional information on Panasonic ClearConnect. Also Panasonic Food Lockers… Read More »
Amazon Palm Payment From Tech Crunch Aug 2021 – Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker / 12:49 PM MDT•August 2, 2021 In Brief Actually pretty good idea to use palm biometrics. Other methods intersect with too many others, most of which are in sensitive sectors (fingerprint in corrections for example or IRIS in DHS) Excerpt How much is your palm print worth? If you… Read More »
Skincare Kiosk AI in Retail From Trendhunter July 2021 Editors Note: First time we have seen skin care kiosk, and with AI. Actually makes a lot of sense especially with the quality of cameras these days. These could work in telemedicine quite easily. Put one in every Ulta salon or Sephora for that matter as a public service… Read More »
Robotic Kitchen with Robotic Chef We thought this was a robotic chef cool video and a cool company (in UK). At first you might wonder why they would design a robot and kitchen using articulated human hands when other forms might be more effective. It’s instrumental in cloning or copying the exact hand and finger movements of a… Read More »
From Panasonic Jul 2021 — ClearConnect Off-Premise Dining Solution Empower your customers through a dedicated take-out solution for the fast-growing off-premise dining segment. Food Locker technology from Panasonic provides guests with an easy and secure option to pick up orders at peak freshness, all in a dedicated space. Integrated pick-up Install in a restaurant or communal space and… Read More »
Airline Biometric Check-In aka Facial Check-In From Collins Aerospace July 2021 New system streamlines passenger processing Facial recognition reduces physical interactions and enhances passenger convenience Tokyo, Japan (Jul 19, 2021) – Collins Aerospace has completed deployment of its ARINC SelfPassTM biometrics solution at Haneda Airport, one of the busiest airports in Asia, streamlining passenger processing through reduced physical interactions and… Read More »
From Axios July 2021 Facial recognition surges in retail stores Bit of a fluff piece with the catchy title . Once again the actual content betrayed the calculated title. It has turned into a shell game predicting which titles from which publications will provide the corresponding content. I had hopes for Axios but it was muddled results at… Read More »
