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945GoogleGoogle Sets Up Shop In Tokyo’s Chic Shibuya Neighborhood
Google relocated its head office to Tokoyo’s hip Shibuya neighborhood, taking up most of the 35th floor of the Shibuya Stream skyscraper,...
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2.5KRetailUniqlo’s Quiet Retail Robot Revolution
In the life of any brand, a pivot – or even a series of pivots – is normal. Times change, tastes expand...
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2.1KRetailAdidas To Shut Down Its Robotic Speedfactories in US, Germany
Adidas announced Monday (Nov. 11) that it will be closing its robotic “Speedfactories” in Atlanta and Ansbach, Germany, within 6 months. Instead,...
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2.2KData DiveData Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens
The holiday shopping season is generally not a time of year marked by restraint or a “less is more” type of attitude....
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3.0KDeliveryAmazon, Home Depot Eye Fulfillment Innovations As Same-Day Delivery Race Heats Up
Sometimes innovation in the commerce and payments space is a matter of a new technology or a new process. As recent news...
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5.6KAutomated RetailTrending: The New Face Of Kiosk Retail
Supermarkets are turning to automated solutions to help them meet customers’ demands for rapid in-store shopping and delivery. Grocery chain Giant Eagle,...
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2.2KRetailToyota To Conduct Joint Robotic Research With Preferred Networks
To help fuel efforts to create robot helpers for homes, Toyota Motor Corp is turning to Preferred Networks Inc to conduct joint...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsAttabotics Secures $25M For Supply Chain Robotics
Supply chain technology company Attabotics has announced $25 million in funding, according to a press release issued Tuesday (July 30). Based in...
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2.5KAutomated RetailDeep Dive: Can Automation Solve Grocers’ Inventory Management Challenges?
Brick-and-mortar retailers have one key advantage in the competition against eCommerce: Only they can immediately provide physical products. That advantage evaporates if...
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2.5KRetailWhy Robotization Is Critical To Amazon’s One-Day Shipping Vision
Cathryn Kachura is a a “flow control specialist” at Amazon’s Denver, Colorado sortation center, an extra-large warehouse that is informally known as...
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3.2KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckAmazon Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Better Delivery By Any (And Every) Means
There are full weeks in the race to control the consumer’s whole paycheck — and then there are very full weeks. This...
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1.7KAmazonAmazon Has Used Over 200,000 Robotic Drives Around The World
Amazon said it has deployed 200,000 robotic drives around the globe, according to a report by TechCrunch. The remarks were made at...
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2.2KRetailIKEA Partners With Ori On Robotic Furniture
The era of robotic furniture is upon us, or it will be in 2020, if IKEA’s partnership with Ori to bring robotic...
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2.6KeCommerceOnline Retail Pumps New Fuel Into Warehouse Growth
The rise of eCommerce has done much more than change the way consumers shop (which, in turn, has helped to change the...
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5.9KInnovation5G Starts To Power Better Robots
So much starts with coffee – mornings, political ads, artistic movements, advances in QSR retail – and that dictum could hold true...
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4.7KInnovationHave Consumers Fallen Out Of Love With Robots?
We confess: We hate doing household chores, cooking and running errands – and we suspect you do, too. And the promise of a modern-day version...
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2.3KInvestmentsToyota AI Ventures Launches $100M Fund For Tech Startups
Toyota AI Ventures, the venture capital arm of Toyota, has announced the launch of Fund II, a $100 million fund that will...
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4.3KRetailCanvas Technology Acquired By Amazon
Amid its endeavors in robotic technology, Amazon has reportedly bought Canvas Technology. The Colorado-based startup, which was started in 2015, has offered...
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6.0KRetailSmoothie Order-Ahead Via Robotics
Food preparation is going to the robotic overlords, with entrepreneurs tackling the tasks of making products such as smoothies with the help...
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4.9KInnovationGoogle Wants To Bring More Learning To Robots
Make it about machine learning – that seems to be a theme behind Google’s return to robotics, an effort that reportedly has...
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4.6KGoogleGoogle Gets Back Into Robotics
If at first one doesn’t succeed … Google is reportedly back in the robotics game, according to a The New York Times report. It...
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4.0KInnovationAutonomous Food Deliveries (And Robots) Put To The Test
The last mile can be vexing for firms aiming to get their products in the hands of consumers. For food companies, the logistics...
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7.0KRetailAre Robots Last-Mile Delivery’s Future?
To provide retailers with an automated option for last-mile deliveries, shipping carriers are entering the world of robotics technology. FedEx, for instance,...
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3.1KInvestmentsNuro Raises $940M From SoftBank For Robotic Delivery
Nuro, the robotics company operating in the commerce market, announced on Monday (Feb. 11) that it has raised $940 million in financing...
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5.1KRetailRobots Tasked With Restocking Retailers’ Shelves
Retailers have been testing out shelf-scanning robots to find out if they can handle restocking a store’s inventory when needed. “We’re giving...
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9.4KArtificial IntelligenceWarehouse Robots Pave The Way For More AI Logistics
Robots have taken their place inside eCommerce and other commerce-related warehouses, and will in the coming years take even larger roles in...
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4.3KRetailAhold Delhaize Rolls Out 500 Robots In US Stores
Ahold Delhaize USA is planning to roll out nearly 500 robots to its Stop & Shop and Giant/Martin’s locations. The launch of...
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6.0KRetailBots And Outside-The-Bots, CES 2019: Payments And Commerce Highlights
There was a lot about CES in Las Vegas last week that was predictable. Google and Amazon competed for voice-activated mindshare. There...
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6.6KAmazonAmazon Looks To French Tech For Self-Driving Forklifts
Amazon has signed a seven-year deal with French robotics company Balyo, which has a navigation system that turns forklifts into self-driving vehicles....
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3.0KInnovationHyundai Unveils Walking Car Concept At CES
Hyundai has unveiled a walking car concept at CES, the consumer electronics show being held in Las Vegas, that can help first...
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7.5KInnovationHow Will CES Set The 2019 Payments And Commerce Agenda?
Let’s move past the metaphors and low-level poetic imagery when it comes to the International Consumer Electronics Show, that annual conference and...
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4.9KB2B PaymentsStartups (And Their Investors) Offer Enterprise Processes A Digital Overhaul
With more than $370 million raised by B2B startups this week, investors are showing their support for companies that help other businesses...
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6.7KB2B PaymentsGeek+ Raises $150M For Supply Chain Robotics
Beijing-based Geek+ has raised a $150 million investment round for its robotics technology, designed to enhance supply chain management and logistics. Gigabit Magazine...
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9.2KRetailMoley And Robo Chef Magic
An oft-made complaint in the era of smart machines and advanced robotics is why we all still have to do so much...
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4.9KRetailAlbertsons Turns To AI Tech For Grocery Orders
To assemble baskets of products for delivery orders, Albertsons is teaming up with Takeoff Technologies for a trial partnership. Through the arrangement,...
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3.1KInnovationIron Ox Takes The Farming Industry Fully Autonomous
Iron Ox is getting set to open its first fully autonomous production farm, and will start selling its own produce soon. Iron...
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4.4KB2B PaymentsWEX Taps Troovo For Robotic V-Card Generation
Corporate payments solution provider WEX announced this week it is collaborating with Australia-based robotics process automation firm Troovo Technologies. Together, the companies...
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4.0KPersonnelBNY Mellon’s Scharf Appoints New Digital Head
BNY Mellon has announced Roman Regelman as its new senior executive vice president and head of digital. Regelman will start his position on...
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2.7KToday In DataToday In Data: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
While progress is often described as a persistent march forward, a more accurate metaphor might be something more in line with a...
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7.2KB2B PaymentsNext-Level Robotics Arrives, But Enterprises May Not Be Ready
First, there was automation, then robotics process automation (RPA). As the enterprise makes its way through the Industry 4.0 age of automation...
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4.3KInnovationCafe X And Coffee’s Robotic Future
When most people are attempting to catch a flight out of an international airport and want to grab a cup of coffee,...
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8.8KArtificial IntelligenceHotel, Banking Customers Embrace SoftBank’s Humanoid Robot, Pepper
Imagine you were traveling on business and you just arrived into town and had an emergency. Your luggage was sent to the...
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8.1KRetailCreator’s Robo-Burger: The Natural Evolution Of Fast Food?
When most people talk about the future of automation in fast food and QSR, they are mostly thinking about the front of...
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3.9KArtificial IntelligenceAll About The Bots – And Valuations, Too
In the land of startups, and valuations of startups, it’s all about the Benjamins. And the bots. And the Benjamins that can...
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2.8KGoogleWith Google’s Partial Ban On AI, A Nod Toward Dangers Of Tech Unchecked
The debate over artificial intelligence (AI) is a contentious one. AI can be used for good, argues one side, in developing, say,...
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19.1KArtificial IntelligenceHow Financial Services Can Prevent Bias In AI
It won’t be medicine — or manufacturing, human resources, commerce or logistics. No, when it comes to the biggest immediate impact that...
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5.2KGoogleGoogle To Publish Artificial Intelligence Ethical Guidelines
Google is set to publish ethical guidelines for its use of artificial intelligence this week, after its decision not to renew a...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsAitheon Pilots AI-Powered ‘Digibots’ To Automate Business Processes
Artificial intelligence (AI) robot technology firm Aitheon is introducing an array of so-called “digibots” developed to automate business processes using blockchain technology,...
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4.1KNewsFive At Five: Why Can’t Macy’s Impress Morgan Stanley?
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day — news you might...
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5.7KSizzle/FizzleRobots Sizzle, Tax Reform Fizzles And Facebook Raises Eyebrows With Its Timing
Fizzle of the Week: Timing Spring has finally arrived across the United States, and love is in the air. Even on Facebook....
