Robots Like Pizza Too
A Starship Technologies robot food delivers pizza at George Mason University. Credit: Bill Nino
It’s no secret that pizza is among the world’s favorite foods, but you would be surprised at the amount of leading edge technology being applied to the pizza value chain. Starting with the ingredients, tomatoes require significant energy from both direct and indirect sources to grow and can be harvested through flying robots. When the ingredients are combined in a food production facility artificial intelligence is used to put an end to salami squabbles. In the last mile, one of the initial use cases for self-driving cars is pizza delivery. Ultimately, novel technology often shows up first in the most obvious places, we just have to look.
Visual Inspection
AI Robotics for the Real World
Acoustic Monitoring
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Assembly Line
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Using AI to Find Essential Battery Materials
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Evolutionary Algorithms: How Natural Selection Beats Human Design
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Surge Demand
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