Autonomous Robots Airport Food Delivery Robot

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 »

Convenience Store Self-Checkout – Gilbarco and Crane

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 »

Retail Market Research – 2022 Trends in Self-Service – Facts & Factoids v3

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 »

Payment Security: A Perspective from Europe

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 »

Dennys Robotic Server

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 »

Top 12 Use Cases of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Retail

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 »