This is part two of a two-part interview with Blendid co-founder and CEO, Vipin Jain. Imagine you wanted to create a replicator like you saw on Star Trek. You've successfully figured out how to connect software that directs a robot, a working piece of hardware, that can execute a recipe; repeatedly, with consistent results. Now it's time to go big. "We had a lot of debate around what we should make first. It came down to choosing a food category. It had to be big enough to have mass appeal, especially to millennials and centennials," Vipin said.

Startup Blendid is trekking into the future with smoothie-making robots. The Silicon Valley robotics company is using AI powered by the compact supercomputing of NVIDIA Jetson to quickly serve up customizable juice and vegetable blends. Co-founder Vipin Jain said the original Star Trek was what inspired him to develop Blendid. "Star Trek's replicator was an intelligent machine that knew you, what you liked to eat and how you liked it prepared. That is what I want with Blendid," said Jain, the company's CEO.

It's official: you can now add smoothie-making to the increasingly long list of tasks commandeered by robots. A one-armed autonomous robot designed by California-based startup Blendid was recently rolled out at the University of San Francisco and is capable of making a dozen different blended drinks in about two minutes, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Customers of Blendid's smoothie robot are able to order on their mobile device via the company's app, or at one of several tablet kiosks nearby. An autonomous robot arm is automating the smoothie world, blending customers drinks in 2 minutes or less. Blendid is an automated smoothie-making robot that can whip up an array of drinks in 2 minutes or less.

Sunnyvalle-based robotics and artificial intelligence startup 6d Bytes Inc. has launched an autonomous robotic station, Blendid, which will allow food services companies serve healthy and delicious blends of food. The product, Plug and Play, which has been displayed at an innovation centre in Sunnyvale, offers blended drinks, comprising fresh ingredients such as mango, spinach, blueberry, coconut water, kefir, banana and ginger, prepared by a robot, and without human intervention. Customers can use the mobile app or tablets at the robotic station to browse through the menu, customise their choice of food and make a payment, before the robot can take over the process of preparing and serving the blend within two minutes. "People want healthy and delicious meals on the go," said 6d bytes co-founder and CEO Vipin Jain. "Blended drinks is only the beginning. We will be adding more cuisines and formats in the near future. Marketed to food service operators and retail franchises, Blendid requires no staff and can be accessible 24 hours a day, making it a perfect choice for busy cafeterias, supermarkets, gyms, airports, stadiums and offices."