
Robotic Kiosks Revolutionize Retail, Restaurants
As a young man, Vipin Jain, now the CEO and co-founder of Blendid, was fascinated by a piece of equipment on Star Trek called a replicator. In this futuristic piece of fiction, you could make food from energy without other ingredients. It was a pretty quick way to cook and, of course, no need to clean up. Not a bad idea with only one drawback, of course: It wasn’t real.