Lidar Scanner Primer Contactless 3D lidar scanning is already moving into restaurants and retail in the United States and Japan. You can see that in the Amazon Grab and Go for example. One company at the forefront is Hitachi-LG Data Storage from Korea. They have a Safe Pass product line which covers standalone terminal stations as well as… Read More »
From Digital Signage Blog Editors Note: we are not sure exactly what technologies are in play here. Lidar is one possibility but then so is RFID and even more simple weight sensors (customers pick up an object and the weight changes triggering explanatory video on screens. Interactive Stores Walmart Dave Haynes noted this and it is blogged on Walmart Corporate… Read More »
Pizza Hut launches new robotics-only restaurant in Israel From The Spoon Excerpt This month, Pizza Hut debuted a fully automated robot-powered restaurant. The ‘restaurant-in-a-box’ is based on technology from Hyper-Robotics, an Israel-based food robotics startup that makes containerized restaurants. The restaurant is operating out of the parking lot of Drorim Mall, a shopping mall located in the central Israel city… Read More »
Full review on Thinclient.org Raspberry was very nice and sent us one of their Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kits. Featuring a quad-core 64-bit processor, 4GB of RAM, wireless networking, dual-display output, and 4K video playback, as well as a 40-pin GPIO header, Raspberry Pi 400 is a powerful, easy-to-use computer built into a neat and portable keyboard. Available… Read More »
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 »
