Bear Robotics

LG Electronics may no longer be a household name in smartphones, but it still sees a big future in gadgets like robots. Today, the company confirmed a $60 million investment…

Bear Robotics, a robot waiter startup, just picked up $60M from LG

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The good, the bad and the Actuator

One of the trickiest parts of this gig is setting realistic expectations. The job of writing about robots for a living is a bit of a balancing act between excited optimism and pragmatic realism. How do you temper the excitement of some of the world’s most fascinating technologies with reality’s…

The good, the bad and the Actuator

The independent restaurant customer, most likely adopting restaurant operation technology for the first time, is who Fudo is targeting.

Andreessen, Atlantico, MAYA Capital add some dough to Fudo’s restaurant tech recipe

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To Servi man

A nice secondary effect of writing this newsletter is getting an influx of responses when I write on a specific topic. Last week it was agtech. I expressed a bit of disappointment in the category. So many robotics firms have either failed or been acquired. That’s just kind of how…

To Servi man

One of the most interesting things about following food robotics startups over the past couple of years is tracking all of the different tasks companies are looking to automate, from…

Bear Robotics targets restaurant staffing shortages with another $81M raise

SoftBank has been quite bullish on Bear Robotics this year, beginning with leadership in a $32 million Series A back in January. It’s easy to see why the investment firm…

SoftBank will bring Bear’s serving robots to Japan, amid restaurant labor shortages

Back in August, we flagged a filing for you that we found interesting, one for a now 2.5-year-old, 40-person Redwood City, Calif.,-based startup called Bear Robotics that’s been developing robots…

Bear Robotics, a company making robot waiters, just raised a $32 million round led by SoftBank

Some days, it feels like there’s almost no end to the number of jobs that might be replaced altogether or in some part by smart machines, from radiologists to truck…

Bear Robotics is raising big bucks for robots that deliver food to restaurant patrons