Dishwashing robot working
Food

AI Does the Dishes: Dishcraft Robotics automatically cleans dishes and utensils.

A pioneer in dishwashing robots is reaching into commercial kitchens. Dishcraft Robotics uses machines equipped with computer vision to scrub dirties for corporate food services and, soon, restaurants.
Information related to a convolutional neural network that predicts corn yields in fields
Food

AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.

Deep learning research is harvesting better ways to manage farms. A convolutional neural network predicted corn yields in fields across the U.S. Midwest.
Some results from CB Insights' annual list of the 100 most promising startups in AI
Food

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.
The Tibot Spoutnic
Food

Poultry in Motion: Tyson Foods uses AI to track inventory of chicken products.

A top meat packer is counting its chickens with AI. Tyson Foods is using computer vision to track drumsticks, breasts, and thighs as they move through its processing plants, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Kai-Fu Lee
Food

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...
Robot cooking and serving food
Food

A Sleeping Giant Stirs

Sony, the consumer-electronics powerhouse behind the PlayStation and other hit gadgets, is launching three research-and-design centers to focus on AI. Staffing up means competing with — and likely poaching talent from — frontrunners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
Illustration of vending machine with candy and the text "Say "trick or treat""
Food

Machines Take Everyone’s Job

From blue collar laborers to lab coated professionals, is any job safe from AI? AI will exceed human performance at a wide range of activities. Huge populations will become jobless.
Machine putting sauce on pizza dough
Food

Automation’s Frontier: Fast Food

Quick-service restaurants are experiencing record-high employee turnover, while labor advocates are pushing for higher wages. Some experts say these forces are propelling the fast food industry toward full automation.

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