Here at The Spoon, we’ve been following pretty much every robot restaurant concept for the past decade, and have watched dozens of company ideas and hundreds of millions of dollars come and ...

Back in 2023, when Oobli started pushing out its line of sweet teas and chocolates to gain attention for its precision-fermented sweetener, being at the intersection of protein and a healthier ...

Ever since Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf coined the term quantified self nearly two decades ago, a whole industry has grown up around personal activity trackers to count our steps, optimize our sleep, and ...

The heyday of hardware Kickstarter may be behind us (Coolest Cooler anyone?), but occasionally, a project emerges with the right blend of a captivating promotional video, impressive specs, and promise ...

You know that phrase “you see what you look for?” I am knee-deep in that right now. As we put together The Spoon’s first conference on food robotics and automation happening in April, I see robots ...

For most of its modern history, food deemed healthy came with a tradeoff: it might be good for you, but it probably wouldn’t taste very good, and it would almost certainly require discipline. Matt ...

Cana, the company which was building an appliance that they claimed could create and customize virtually any beverage, shut down last week, The Spoon has learned. According to numerous Linkedin posts ...

Not bad for a first year. After launching their compostable ball-shaped coffee pod brewing system last fall, CoffeeB has already reached a milestone of two hundred thousand customers who are using the ...

If you’ve been paying attention to the June Oven website lately (and really, who hasn’t?), you may have noticed that it’s been a bit difficult to order a new smart oven from the company for most of ...

AI is seemingly everywhere nowadays, so it was only a matter of time before it would show up at the backyard BBQ to help us cook the perfect steak. That’s the vision of a UK startup named SEERGRILLS, ...

Creator, the San Francisco restaurant made famous by its burger-making robot, was among the thousands of restaurants shut down by the pandemic (even though it engineered an awesome germ-free airlock ...