The gist of it is that a compact robot arm is put into the drop area of a vending machine. After the flap is closed the wired remote control is used to raise up the telescoping arm, and grip the ...

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There is one robotic employee, though, that is almost always greeted with a smile and possibly, a sigh of relief: the humble vending machine. It knows its lane and excels in it, due to its ability ...

Pierce College has a new coffee vending machine, NeeMoo Coffee, which includes a fully automated robotic arm that prepares ...

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VenHub, an artificial intelligence and robotic technology company, just opened their first fully autonomous smart stores in Glendale and North Hollywood. It may look like a big vending machine ...

A free contraceptive vending machine has been installed at the Gather Shoppe in downtown Bloomington, making emergency ...

A pizza vending machine is up and running at a Rancho Cordova shopping center. PizzaForno, an automated pizza chain, installed its first pizza-serving robot in California late June at Nimbus ...

Quite a bit, as it turns out. In this installment, we’ll take a look at the development of vending machines and programs like Speed Mail, Missile Mail, and V-Mail (no, not voicemail!) ...