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Fully-Autonomous Restaurant in San Francisco

Mezli, which just opened its first restaurant in August 2022, utilizes technology to bring healthy Mediterranean grain bowls to the market.

The initial restaurant is fully-autonomous and housed in a 20-foot shipping container. Their Mediterranean bowls are priced to be affordable, with the flagship bowls starting at $6.99. A Michelin-starred chef assisted with the creation of their menu.

The process begins each day at Mezli’s central kitchen with food preparation. Food is then delivered to the restaurant. Robots at the restaurant receive customer […]

By Ross L. Fink, Ph.D.|2022-09-25T23:56:43+00:00September 27, 2022|Tags: apps, automation, location, process design, processes, robotics, robots, technology|

Hands-Free Charging Stations Make EV Ownership More Accessible

Ford is developing a robot charging station as a hands-free charging solution for electric and autonomous vehicles.

The hands-free charging solution is especially attractive to disabled electric vehicle drivers who can operate the charging with a smartphone from inside the car or leave the car with the robots to charge up their vehicle.

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Ford Develops Robot EV Charging Station (July 21, 2022, Global Update)

This post is based on the Next Green Car article,

By Anita Lee-Post, Ph.D.|2022-08-15T01:53:36+00:00August 17, 2022|Tags: product design, product development, robotics, robots, strategy|

Agility Robotics Is Developing a Bipedal Robot for Warehouses

Agility Robotics is focusing on developing a bipedal ‘Digit’ robot that can unpack trucks and move boxes around warehouses.

Additional funding is secured to expand operations to three locations, namely Oregon, Bay Area, and Pittsburg, to deliver its robots to customers including Amazon and Ford.

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The Future of Robotics (Apr 22, 2022, Agility Robotics)

This post is based on the TechCrunch article, As it brings its bipedal robots to market, Agility announces a […]

By Anita Lee-Post, Ph.D.|2022-06-06T07:07:25+00:00June 16, 2022|Tags: innovation, last mile delivery, process design, robotics, robots, technology, warehouse, warehousing|

Ottobots, Assemble! And Deliver.

Passengers at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport can now use their phones to order food and/or retail items and have their purchases delivered to their airport location by a fleet of fully autonomous robots called Ottobots.

Purchases are retrieved by customers from the robot’s secure compartment with a unique QR code that can be scanned by the robot’s camera. Contactless delivery, fueled by the pandemic, is made possible with Ottonomy’s proprietary Contextual Mobility technology. It enables Ottobots to navigate through crowds […]

By Anita Lee-Post, Ph.D.|2022-02-07T04:47:45+00:00February 7, 2022|Tags: automation, delivery, last mile delivery, order fulfillment, robots, service processes, technology|