Blendid, an autonomous and contactless food automation platform that leverages machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence to create smoothies, made on-demand, has installed its fourth robotic food kiosk at a Walmart in Fremont, California…

You know that robots are going mainstream when they pop up in Walmart. That was the case for startup Blendid which debuted its fourth Bay Area location at the Fremont Walmart in California this week. The kiosk, open seven days a week, allows customers to place contactless orders for a 12-ounce smoothie, which will…

By Becky Vuksta’s calculations, the new socially distanced dining-hall setup at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., will serve 12 students a minute, or 720 students per hour. Not bad, but still not fast enough to feed the school’s 2,700 students in the rush between classes. So Ms. Vuksta, Furman’s director of auxiliary services, has…

Blendid CEO Vipin Jain discusses the technology behind the robot which makes customized smoothies instantly.

The newest attraction at Charlie Brown’s Cafe at Sonoma State University is making drinks and drawing a crowd. It’s a smoothie-making robot. “It creates something students might want to come to campus for. It’s definitely eye-appealing. Not every place on campus has robots,” said Cheri-Ann Inouye, a sophomore in business administration. “I like it because…

If you want to see the future of robots, go to college. I don’t mean become a student and take classes, I mean just literally head to a college campus as they are quickly becoming the go-to spot for companies to launch robots. Among the latest is Blendid’s smoothie-making robot, which is launch…