Chipotle’s next era of technology has begun to take shape inside restaurants, with a central focus on optimization. On Tuesday, the fast casual announced it’s piloting multiple technologies to streamline operations and strip friction from its business. The first, piloting in select Southern California restaurants, is a cook-to-needs kitchen management system that provides demand-based cooking and ingredient preparation forecasts to “optimize throughput and freshness while minimizing food waste,” the company said.

Business-to-business publisher WTWH Media announced the winners of the 2022 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards (RBR50). Produced by Robotics Business Review for the past decade, the annual RBR50 list celebrates forward-thinking organizations and their original, impactful creations. Recognized throughout the world, the RBR50 awards are also a critical measure of robotics sector growth. "For the robotics sector, the role, importance, and impact of innovation has never been greater," said Dan Kara, Vice President, Robotics at WTWH Media. "With this year's RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards, Robotics Business Review highlights those critical innovations, and the organizations responsible for them, that will spur the development of new robotics solutions and drive robotics adoption forward."

In celebration of Nationwide Robotics Week, iRobot right now launched the Create 3 instructional robotic. Primarily based on the Roomba i3 Collection robotic vacuum platform, Create 3 is a cell robotic growth platform for superior makers who're studying ROS 2. Create 3 is obtainable within the US ($299) and Canada ($399) now. Will probably be obtainable in EMEA by way of approved distributors within the coming months. Create 3 doesn't have vacuuming capabilities, nevertheless it presents a boatload of different options to advance one's robotics information. It comes pre-assembled and outfitted with Wi-Fi, Ethernet-over-USB host, and Bluetooth.

That was the message delivered by Agility Robotics and Boston Dynamics during their respective opening and closing keynotes at the inaugural Robotics Summit & Showcase, produced by The Robot Report and WTWH Media in Boston. Agility Robotics CEO and co-founder Damion Shelton updated attendees on its Cassie bipedal robot. Boston Dynamics co-founder and CEO Marc Raibert quickly discussed the wheel-leg hybrid robot Handle, which he said we'll hear more about in 2019 with a real application, while focusing more on the Atlas bipedal and SpotMini quadruped robots. Raibert conducted a live demo of SpotMini (watch below) where the robot traversed a small obstacle and picked up a soda can and handed it to Raibert. Neither company claims legged robots are a fit for every application. "If we evolved with wheels, I'm sure our environments would be good for wheels, too," Shelton said.