• xRobotics, a pizza-making robot developer, has partnered with 1FIIT Technology to deploy its latest robot “xPizza Cube” at the Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri on behalf of the latter’s customer Fresh Ideas Food Management, a food service management company.

• XPizza Cube is compact (20 inches wide) and can prepare 100–300 pizzas per hour using three ingredients such as sauce, cheese, and pepperoni. The robot is equipped with a user-friendly interface and claims it can be set up within 15 minutes.

Analyst QuickTake: Today, universities in the US are increasingly adopting the latest robotic technologies for food service. For example, Blendid, a smoothie-making robotic kiosk developer, announced plans to pilot robots at two university locations in February, and DoorDash-owned salad-making robot developer Chowbotics partnered with Kellogg’s to launch a cereal dispensing robot at a university a year ago. This trend, not limited to food preparation, can also be seen in food delivery as well—the downstream supply chain. In fact, several universities have already automated on-campus food delivery by using robotic delivery droids developed by last-mile delivery automation companies such as Starship Technologies and Kiwibot. </ul>