Category Archives: Automated kiosk

Automated Retail Kiosks

  • Automated Kiosk News: This page contains the latest news and articles about automated kiosks, self-service technology, and related topics from the Kiosk Industry website.
  • Kiosk Industry: This is a website that provides information, resources, and insights for the kiosk and self-service industry. It also hosts the Kiosk Manufacturer Association, a global organization of kiosk vendors and suppliers.
  • Topics Covered: Some of the topics covered by the news and articles on this page include: healthcare kiosks, sports betting kiosks, digital signage, payment kiosks, vending machines, self-service innovation, kiosk software, kiosk hardware, and more.
  • References: This page contains many references and links to other sources, such as press releases, white papers, case studies, reports, and websites of kiosk companies and associations.

Automated Restaurant Miso & PopID – Cali Express Flippy with Nvidia AI

Automated Restaurant Cali Express From Miso Robotics — Imagine going to In-and-Out and ordering a wagyu burger. Not sure how personalized it can get given the very simple menu.  You have to wonder about the backend and how cleanup is managed. Automation at CaliExpress by Flippy™ Pasadena, CA – Cali Group, a holding company using technology to transform… Read More »

Kiosk Machine – Automated Vending Cocktail Tended Bar

Facial Payment Kiosk Vending From SportsTechie — TendedBar, the automated cocktail machine that uses facial recognition to process drink orders, will be implemented at Empower Field at Mile High for Denver Broncos homes games this upcoming NFL season. The stadium began using TendedBar at concerts earlier this summer in partnership with Aramark Sports + Entertainment and will debut TendedBar’s new digital age verification tool for Saturday’s Red… Read More »

Bitcoin Kiosks – ARCA & Crane Bitcoin ATM Bitcoin Kiosk

Press release issued by ARCA today.  The addition of the cash recycler is big news plus the new Android support.  At some point ARCA will abstract these devices into network appliances, and cash is still 50% and holding steady (and growing some). ARCA’S ENVOY™ PLATFORM NOW FULLY INTEGRATED WITH CRANE PAYMENT INNOVATION’S (CPI) MEI SCR AND SC ADVANCE… Read More »

Premier Tax Free Shopping self-service kiosk refund platform

Premier Tax Free Shopping unveils self-service refund platform

Source: www.moodiereport.com

The kiosk is connected to all till points in-store, and automatically recalls the purchase information as soon as the receipt is scanned. 

Using inbuilt scanners, the tourist can simply scan their passport and sign the form using an inbuilt signature pad. Respecting all local and international regulations, the printed tax-free form is fully compliant, and in some countries, such as France, it is linked to Customs to synchronise with local systems. 

Automation – Swyft Raises $3.5M Series A Financing

The original founder of ZoomSystems has funding for new endeavor which seems to be in the same space in many ways.

Source: finance.yahoo.com

Swyft was co-founded by Gower Smith, creator of the automated retail industry. “We are at the inflection point where automated retail is proven, however has not yet scaled. Just like when banks introduced ATMs, location numbers increased 10 times once independent manufacturers deployed low-cost machines. At ZoomSystems I quickly grew annual sales from zero to $100 million, but after handing off management, the company didn’t continue to lower capital cost to improve ROI. Our data showed that this was the key for scale to tens of thousands of locations and billions in revenue, which is our focus at Swyft.”

Cannabis Kiosks – Even Weed Industry Isn’t Safe From Automation

The cannabis industry’s unique financial difficulties have created a whole micro-industry dedicated to creative banking solutions for pot brokers, which range frombank-to-bank phone apps to blockchain powered peer-to-peer transactions

Source: motherboard.vice.com

KIND is not the only software and/or compliance company to be thinking about cannabis kiosks—Jane and KioWare are two other companies that also want to use automated kiosks as a solution to the cannabis industry’s financial problems. Even Jamaica’s Cannabis Licensing Authority is on the kiosk train and wants to install weed kiosks in Jamaica’s airports. Yet with KIND’s recent partnership with Microsoft to provide cannabis tracking solutions for governments, Dinenberg thinks that KIND definitely has the leg up on competition.

Kiosk News — Opinion – The Coming Tech Backlash

Forget foreign scapegoats. Tech innovation is what’s killing jobs. And the revolt after Trump will resemble the real Luddite movement. The tech industry played an influential role in the outcome of the US Presidential election. Not just in providing the medium for fake news and propaganda. The root cause is job destruction by automation , which drove a base… Read More »

Automated Wine Kiosk Update – LCB

Automated Wine Kiosk Update – LCB At one time the automated wine dispensing kiosks in PA were the talk of the industry.Their ROI model which included “free deployment” came under a lot of discussion as well.  Here was one of the first self-dispense retail automation example and case study. What happened with the free kiosk? It has not… Read More »