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Silicon Valley is Betting Big on Home Electrification. Will It Translate In The Kitchen?
This week, news of a new home electrification startup hit the wires. Founded by former Google Ventures partner Rick Klau, Onsemble builds technology to convert electric water heaters into what the energy industry calls a virtual power plant (VPP). VPPs act as aggregators and coordinators between independent distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop solar, wind…
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CoffeeB Hits 200k Households For Coffee Ball Brewing System That Aims to Replace Capsules
Not bad for a first year. After launching their compostable ball-shaped coffee pod brewing system last fall, CoffeeB has already reached a milestone of two hundred thousand customers who are using the system according to company CEO Frank Wilde. In a recent Linkedin post commerating the company’s one year anniversary, Wilde revealed the milestone and…
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Sodexo to Deploy SavorEat’s Plant-Based Burger Printing Robot at the University of Denver
This week, food service giant Sodexo and plant-based 3D printing specialist SavorEat announced they will be rolling out SavorEat’s 3D printing robot at the University of Denver. The deployment of the SavorEat Robot Chef marks the first deployment of the Israel-based company’s 3D printing technology in the U.S. SavorEat, which went public on the Tel…
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Samsung Heads Into the Kitchen, Robot Meets Artisan Pizza
The Spoon is back for another week of food tech news, and this week Michael Wolf and Allen Weiner talk about what’s going on in the smart kitchen, alt protein, CRISPR and more. Here are the stories we talk about: Samsung and LG play nice in the kitchen, and Samsung launches food app. MOTO Pizza, where…
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With the Launch of Samsung Food, Samsung Hypes AI & Consolidates Food Features Acquired Over the Years
Over the years, Samsung has acquired and launched several products in an effort to become the king of the tech-powered kitchen. First, there was the launch of the Family Hub refrigerator, the company’s attempt to create a smart fridge built around the company’s own operating system and packed with technology like fridge cams to identify…
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Is IdeaLab’s Bill Gross Building a Food Prep and Delivery Robot?
Every now and then, an interesting patent appears in patent searches that make you wonder exactly what someone’s up to. Now, don’t get me wrong. Patents are issued all the time, and most of the time, a real product or business isn’t created. But when it comes to someone like IdeaLab‘s Bill Gross – an…
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U.S. Plant-Based Meat Sales in Food Service Hit All-Time High in ’22, Retail Sales Remain Flat
According to a new report from the Good Food Institute (GFI) examining plant-based meat sales in the U.S. food service sector, sales of meat derived from plants sold to restaurants and other food service institutions hit $730 million in 2022, up 7.8% and $53 million in total dollars compared to the previous year. GFI also…
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CRISPR Specialist Pairwise Renews Partnership With Bayer to Focus on Gene-Edited Corn
Today, Pairwise announced a new five-year partnership with ag giant Bayer after touting milestones resulting from the two companies’ initial collaboration. According to the gene-editing specialist, the initial partnership – which concluded in June of this year – had seen Pairwise help develop 27 novel traits that were transferred into Bayer’s testing programs. These included…
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Delivery Giants DoorDash and Uber Eats Join The Rush to Integrate AI Into Ordering Platforms
Over the last six months, we’ve watched as seemingly every quick-service restaurant chain jumped on the AI freight train, integrating new generative AI technology into apps, chatbots, and voice ordering tools to expedite the customer experience. Now, it looks like food-ordering platforms DoorDash and Uber Eats are taking their turn to roll out AI tools.…
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Starship Hits Fifty Schools While Yo-Kai Aims for All Fifty States
Just in the last day, two food robot startups have shared some deployment data that make clear they – and the broader space – appear to be getting some traction. First was the CEO of Yo-Kai, Andy Lin, who shared a map of the American cities in which Yo-Kai ramen kiosks are deployed: When I…
