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Softbank Brings Yo-Kai, Servi & Pepper Together to Demo End-to-End Roboticized Food Service
Last week, the robotics division of Japanese tech and energy conglomerate Softbank showed off a future in which food service robots work hand in hand to deliver a meal to the customer. The demo featured a Yo-Kai ramen vending machine, a Servi server robot from Bear Robotics, and Softbank’s own...
Doing Avocado-Eaters a Solid the World Over, Apeel Introduces Avocado Freshness Scanning System
Today Apeel announced they would unveil new freshness detection technology for avocados this week at the Fresh Produce Association Global Produce & Floral Show. The system, based on hyperspectral imaging technology, starts by shining a light that penetrates several millimeters below the skin. From there, it utilizes a sensor to measure how much light is reflected in the visible and near-infrared spectrum. Once scanned, the system’s AI predicts the avocado’s freshness and estimates shelf life by utilizing a “global avocado ripeness model” the company developed using machine learning based on “data on tens of thousands of avocados throughout multiple seasons, blooms, and countries of origin.”
Join Us Today at SKS For These In-Depth Workshops
We hope you’re ready for SKS Day 2, which includes four insights-packed workshops!. We’ll be hearing about prototyping your next big idea, managing IP and patents for a food tech startup, building a connected recipe strategy for appliance brands and an introduction to solid-state cooking. You won’t want...
Meet These 14 Food Tech Innovators Tomorrow at SKS
Ever since 2015, we’ve been welcoming companies that build interesting technology that change how we shop, cook, and eat to our big event, SKS. This year is no different, and tomorrow we’ll hear from 14 startups showcasing their products on the big stage. You won’t want to miss...
French Robot Pizza Restaurant Startup Pazzi Shuts its Doors
Another robot pizza startup has shut down. According to an email sent to The Spoon, the Paris-based startup had seen its assets liquidated by a French court. The company, which had attempted to find a buyer, closed the doors of its two restaurants last Monday and will lay off its remaining 35 employees in the coming days.
Founder of Eater & Resy Launches Blackbird, a Web3 Loyalty Platform for Hospitality
Ben Leventhal is at it again. The founder of Eater and Resy’s new startup is called Blackbird, which he describes as “a new loyalty, membership, and payments technology company.”. The company will work on building software products “that establishes and enhances connectivity between individual restaurants and their guests.”...
For Restaurant Robots to Succeed, Remy Robotics Believes They Need to Be at The Center of The Kitchen
Ask Yegor Traiman about whether robots or humans are better at making food, and he’ll side with his fellow carbon-based lifeforms. “What might be super easy for humans is very difficult for robots,” Traiman told The Spoon. But this doesn’t mean the CEO of food robotics startup Remy...
Impact Justice Launches Program to Train Incarcerated Populations to Become High-Tech Farmers
This week, Impact Justice announced the launch of Growing Justice, a new program that utilizes precision indoor agriculture to expand access to fresh food in prison communities and provide skills training to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated populations. The program’s first containerized vertical farm and job training program will be at...
Pat Brown’s New Job is to Build a Moonshot Factory For Food
This week we learned Pat Brown is leaving his role as Chief Science Officer at Impossible Foods to start a new research arm within the company, tentatively called Impossible Labs. According to an email obtained by Insider, Impossible Labs’ goal is “to focus on the transformative innovation that will propel...
The Spoon Weekly: Coffee Balls, Insect-Powered Upcycling & More
Welcome to the Spoon newsletter, online edition. Subscribe to The Spoon to get it delivered straight to your inbox. SKS Is in Two Weeks! Check out our speakers, workshops, interactive sessions and more! We’ll also be having our exhibition and networking in a metaverse space built just for SKS! Multi-person tickets available.
Vienna’s LIVIN Farms Receives €6 million to Upcycle Food Waste Into Insect-Powered Protein
Turning food waste into a usable commodity might seem like magic, but it’s a reality for companies such as Vienna-based LIVIN farms. The company has announced a €6 million Series A round led by venture Investor Peter Luerssen, allowing it to expand its team and solution. As a...
Fresh Portal Is a Tech-Powered Take on the Old-Timey Milk Door
When I first saw the Fresh Portal at CES, I thought it made a whole lotta sense. After all, what food-ordering families wouldn’t appreciate the ability to keep groceries or restaurant-delivered food cold or warm until they arrive home from work?. But the idea behind the Fresh Portal isn’t...
UAE Installs Bread-Dispensing Robots Around Dubai To Help Feed Those in Need
LBX Food Robotics (formerly known as LeBread Xpress) announced today they have partnered with The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI) Foundation to install bread-dispensing robots throughout Dubai to help feed those in food insecure situations. The custom-built Bake Xpress machines will provide a selection of complimentary local breads and pitas and will give customers the ability to make voluntary monetary donations.
Here Here Market Wants to Connect Chefs and Food Artisans Directly With Consumers
During the pandemic, chefs cut off from serving dine-in customers needed to find a way to pay the bills. One obvious way was through third-party food delivery, but that often meant high delivery fees and cold food. So some Chefs started selling packaged foods, but that often meant creating their...
Asia Pacific Leads in Plant-Based Meat IP According to Report
While many think innovation in plant-based meat is a fairly recent phenomenon, companies, researchers and entrepreneurs have looking for ways to leverage plants as an alternative to animal agriculture since the sixties. However, there’s no doubt the pace of innovation has accelerated in recent decades amidst a worsening climate crisis...
With Connected Stores, Instacart Continues Push to Become Technology Platform Partner for Grocers
Today Instacart announced a new bundle of technologies aimed at helping retailers digitally power their storefronts. A mix of existing and new products, the new suite is a sign of Instacart’s continued effort to transform itself from an in-store shopper and delivery services company to an omnichannel grocery technology arms dealer.
Israel’s Profuse Technology Raises $2.5M for Technology That Lowers Cost of Cultured Meat
As the world awaits the arrival of cultured meat, manufacturers and their suppliers strategize to cope with the realities of this potentially mammoth market. Infrastructure and product scaling for growth remain a challenge from the supply side. Still, concerns over the pricing of lab-grown meat, poultry, and seafood might be the most significant roadblock to consumer acceptance.
Does CoffeeB’s Podless Coffee Machine Have a Fighting Chance Against The Keurig?
Last week, Swiss retail giant Migros dropped a giant surprise on the coffee world with the debut of the CoffeeB coffee brewing system. The new machine, which took the company five years to develop, is a single-serve coffee machine that completely does away with the plastic pod. The new system utilizes round balls of coffee called, um, Coffee Balls, instead of old-school plastic or aluminum capsules. Coffee Balls, which are wrapped in a layer of algae that keeps the coffee fresh and protected from flavor loss, can be dropped into a compost bin after they are used.
Israel’s BioBetter Gets Funding for its Tobacco Plant Protein Technology
Analysts predict the value of the cultured meat market will reach $2.8 billion in 2030, which isn’t bad for a sector that has yet to produce a viable mass consumer product. While many global regulatory agencies decide if/when to give lab-grown beef, chicken, fish, etc., the green light, there is no shortage of companies working on supporting this nascent space.
Millo’s New Motorless Blender Features ‘Magnetic Air Drive’
Founded in 2015, Millo is a food tech appliance company that jumped into the market with an innovative small blender that produced smoothies and other blended concoctions with a quiet motor. As company Adam Trakselis, CEO, told The Spoon that the idea for the initial product came from the fact that the machine he used for his post-exercise blended beverages was so loud it woke his family. “So I would have to wait until everyone wakes up to use the blender.”
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