Study: Restaurant Industry Adding Robots to Offset Rising Labor Costs

October 1, 2020 Ball State

Your favorite bartender or waitress could soon be replaced by a mechanical counterpart on a future visit to the local pub or restaurant, says a new study from Ball State University.

Woodman’s Markets Rolls Out Badger Technologies Grocery Robots

July 28, 2020 Badger Technologies

These robots will monitor product availability, verify prices and deliver precise location data for more than 100,000 items at each location.

Advanced Farm Technologies Raises $ 7.5M Series A for its Strawberry Picking Robot

Based in Davis, CA, AFT creates robots as a service for farmers. It has developed the T-6 robotic strawberry harvester which operates on farms in the Oxnard, Santa Maria, and Salinas-Watsonville areas of California.

Tyson Bets on Robots to Tackle Meat Industry’s Worker Shortage

August 9, 2019 Lydia Mulvany, Bloomberg

The U.S. meat giant is betting that automation and robotics can alleviate a worker shortage that has long hampered the industry. The company has built the 26,000-square-foot, multi-million dollar Tyson Manufacturing Automation Center near its headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas.

Robot in Aisle 3: Retail Turns More and More to Machines

It was just a scrap of paper on the floor of a Stop & Shop supermarket in Quincy, near the produce section. But for Marty, no matter how small the scrap, it was one piece too many. At the sight of it, Marty froze and called for backup.