Robot waiter brings a plate of food to a restaurant table - Ira Lichi/Shutterstock You might love a Rosie the Robot in the house to cook and clean as she did in the Jetsons' home, doing all the ...

Diners at Sweetgreen in Willis Tower, get ready to meet the chef of the future: a robot that makes your salad to order. The California-based chain is launching its automated Infinite Kitchen system ...

Walking into your favorite restaurant and seeing a robot chef in the kitchen may seem far-fetched, but a University of Mississippi professor’s research says bots could be a solution to persistent ...

Chipotle (NYSE:CMG) and Cava (NYSE:CAVA) compete for health-conscious customers, but their recent team-up demonstrates where the industry is heading next. Hyphen, a foodservice platform that has ...

Diners at Sweetgreen in Willis Tower, get ready to meet the chef of the future: a robot that makes your salad to order. The California-based chain is launching its automated Infinite Kitchen system ...

“The kitchen is the biggest industry in the world because everyone everywhere needs to eat,” says Shirley Chen, founder of Botinkit, framing a vision as much about economics as technology. And on ...

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — You may have already seen them in restaurants: waist-high machines that can greet guests, lead them to their tables, deliver food and drinks and ferry dirty dishes to the ...

Automating food is unlike automating anything else. Food is fundamental to life – nourishing body and soul – so how it's accessed, prepared and consumed can change societies fundamentally. Since ...

When he was a boy in Hong Kong, Kenny Poon loved to watch Japanese cartoons, and remembers being transfixed by a scene of a restaurant kitchen staffed by robots. “I said, ‘I’m going to open a kitchen ...

Chef-slash-inventor Homaro Cantu's Chicago-based restaurant Moto is revered for food technologies and an extremely rare culinary sleight-of-hand. When we visited the gastro-temple a few days ago to ...

Robot servers escort diners to tables, take orders, carry dishes, cook and clean, tasks they’ve been performing in Asian countries for more than a decade. Now they’re working at a dozen restaurants ...

Listen and subscribe to Opening Bid on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. In his downtime, you may catch Chipotle's (CMG) new CEO, Scott Boatwright, hitting the gym ...