Simply within the final day, two meals robotic startups have shared some deployment information that clarify they – and the broader house – seem like getting some traction.
First was the CEO of Yo-Kai, Andy Lin, who shared a map of the American cities during which Yo-Kai ramen kiosks are deployed:
Once I adopted up with a query about precisely what number of areas and cities, Lin advised me, “26 states, 127 areas.” He additionally stated the corporate hopes to have Yo-Kais in all fifty states quickly.
Spectacular momentum, and it doesn’t even embrace the corporate’s presence in Asia and Europe.
Subsequent up was Starship, which put out a information launch this morning with up to date faculty campus rollout numbers. In keeping with the corporate, Starship sidewalk bots will traverse the campuses of fifty universities this fall – 20 greater than final fall – together with new colleges like Wichita State College, Boise State College, and The College of New Orleans. The corporate says it now has a fleet of over two thousand sidewalk rovers and operates in over half of the US states.
The corporate additionally introduced it’s introducing wi-fi charging this 12 months, which can enable the Starship bots to roll as much as charging stations, join, and cost, all and not using a human, utilizing the identical primary know-how many people use to cost our good watches or iPhones with these days.
You’ll be able to see the Starship charging stations within the video beneath:
Apparently, the Starship numbers dwarf publicly obtainable numbers from Serve, the spinout from Uber that stated in its submitting to go public through reverse merger that it at present has a fleet of about 100 sidewalk supply bots.
Whereas the previous 12 months has been a difficult one for meals robots, the latest updates from Yo-Kai and Starship and Serve’s latest submitting to go public present there’s some hope for the market regardless of the difficulties of operating complicated and capital-intensive meals robotics companies.
