Tag: travel
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Tulsa university now offers robot delivery service from Starship Technologies
The University of Tulsa has introduced Starship Technologies’ robot food delivery service. From breakfast bagels and lattes to Mr Beast burgers and hot wings, TU students and employees can have meals roll right up to their door anywhere on campus between 7.30 am and 11 pm. Starship’s fleet of 15 autonomous, on-demand robots will deliver…
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Starship Technologies launches robot delivery service at Missouri university
Starship Technologies, the world’s leading provider of autonomous delivery services, rolled out its robot food delivery service today on the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) campus. Starship’s fleet of 16 autonomous, on-demand robots will deliver from all campus eateries. The school’s students and faculty can now use the Starship app (iOS and…
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Locus granted patent for machine learning models to ‘accurately predict traffic time’ for last-mile deliveries
Locus, a logistics software technology company (not to be confused with Locus Robotics), has been awarded a patent for “Machine Learning Models for Predicting Time in Traffic”, the second patent awarded to the company in 2022. Predictability of last-mile deliveries is a logistical challenge that continues to affect businesses across various sectors such as e-commerce,…
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Starship Technologies launches robot delivery service at Missouri State University
Starship Technologies has rolled out its robot food delivery service at Missouri State University, in partnership with Chartwells Higher Education. This is the first university in Missouri where Starship delivery robots are providing service. The robots will provide deliveries daily.
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Blendid and Jamba find new customer for their robot-made smoothies
Blendid, a maker of a robotic machine that makes food, and Jamba, a provider of fruit and vegetable smoothies, are planning to expand their “Jamba by Blendid” autonomous robotic kiosk locations to Love’s Travel Stops, building on the system’s initial deployments in retail locations and college campuses. The first Jamba by Blendid kiosk piloted at…
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Adapting Robotic Production Lines for a Titanium-Focused Economy
With the post-pandemic recovery well on its way, the new jobs market has placed a clear focus on hygiene. According to CNBC, 66 percent of workers want cleaner, even sterile, working conditions, and that’s independent of their industry. Creating the tools and surfaces required to meet this demand will fall on factories and robotic, or…
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NEC unveils autonomous mobile robot control system
NEC has developed a control technology that the company claims “doubles the efficiency of autonomous mobile robots” in warehouses while maintaining a high level of safety. NEC plans to put this technology into practical use by March 2024 and to have it installed in NEC’s co-operative AMRs in Japan. In recent years, the introduction of…
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Starship Technologies launches robot delivery service at Dallas university
Starship Technologies has rolled out its robot food delivery service at SMU, a Dallas-based private university. Starship’s fleet of 16 autonomous, on-demand robots will deliver from 10 campus eateries. The University’s students, faculty and staff can now use the Starship Food Delivery app (iOS and Android) to order food and drinks from Cinco Taco, Einstein…
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Finland university aims to solve cruise liner passenger safety issues with ‘coughing robot’
Finland’s Healthy Travel project, based at the Åbo Akademi University, is aiming to offer the global cruise industry a lifeline as cruise lines aim to set sail safely once again – through the use of a “coughing robot”. In the multi-disciplinary initiative, Finnish academic researchers, cruise companies, shipyards, and subcontractors are coming together to develop…
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Ottonomy provides ‘first’ fully autonomous delivery robots for airport
A company called Ottonomy is providing a fleet of its fully autonomous delivery robots – called Ottobots – for food and retail at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). This is said to be the first autonomous robotic delivery of food, beverage and lifestyle products in an airport environment. Officially launched for the holiday travel season,…