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.

“Blendid is on a mission to make delicious and customized food accessible to all using robotics and AI. Launching our first Jamba by Blendid kiosk further expands our goals and accessibility,” said Vipin Jain, CEO and co-founder of Blendid. “We’re proud to team up with the leading smoothie brand on this new opportunity to provide a solution for…”

In its first co-branded location, Blendid, developer of an autonomous smoothie-making kiosk, will create contactless, customized Jamba by Blendid smoothies. The Jamba by Blendid kiosk makes its debut Dec. 1 at a Walmart location in Dixon, California…

Blendid and Jamba announced today that their new, co-branded smoothie-making robot is now open for business at a Walmart in Dixon, California. This is the first co-branded robot from Blendid and its second to open up at a Walmart…

December 1, 2020 – Blendid is opening the company’s fourth food robotics kiosk at Walmart in Fremont, CA. Bay Area–based Blendid offers an innovative, autonomous, and contactless food automation platform that leverages machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence…