Automation will bring a number of benefits to food management operations in the post-pandemic world.

AI-powered robots will bring the future of highly personalized, healthy, fresh, and delicious food options to life.

The future of fresh, fast food is in robotics. In the not-so-distant future, robotic food automation systems will line the checkout areas and hallways of our major retailers, food courts, airport terminals, hospitals and universities.

Quick serve is going to the robots thanks to these new machines. Here’s why humans stand a chance.

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.

Smoothie making can be so messy and time consuming that it’s usually easier to leave all the washing, peeling, slicing, and blending to someone else. Or, in Jamba’s case, something else.

Jamba has teamed up with Blendid, a robot smoothie maker, to unveil the first Jamba by Blendid kiosk. In line with food service and retail trends, especially during COVID-10 times, the kiosk is contactless and operates autonomously. 

Blendid, which makes a robotic kiosk that makes smoothies, and Jamba are opening their inaugural co-branded location, Jamba by Blendid, at a West Coast Walmart on Wednesday (Dec. 2), according to an announcement.

Just a few weeks after unveiling a Blendid smoothie-making robot at a Walmart in Fremont California, the retailer and AI startup have debuted another contactless alternative to smoothie bars that this time is co-branded with Jamba.