The future of fast food? Robots. When it comes to truly efficient service, there’s always the possibility that technology allow restaurants to cut out the human middleman altogether, and let the ...

When you order a salad at Sweetgreen at some point in the future, it might roll off a conveyor belt after a robot kitchen puts it together. The company is buying Spyce, an automated kitchen startup.

Photo Caption: The Spyce restaurant in Boston, MA, with investor Daniel Boulud (R). Automation has some key benefits to the industry. But we'd like a closer look under the hood before Spyce gets ...

Sweetgreen disclosed in a public filing this week its purchase price for Spyce, the Boston restaurant startup that uses automation to prepare meals: $50.7 million, mostly in stock. Both restaurants ...

Spyce, a fast-casual eatery that serves bowls and salads engineered by an automated kitchen, celebrated the opening of its Harvard Square location on Wednesday. The restaurant, located at 1 Brattle ...

Fast food could get even faster — with the help of robots. MIT engineering students Kale Rogers, Michael Farid, Braden Knight, and Luke Schlueter invented a fully automated mini-restaurant called ...

The Boston-based robotic kitchen invented by four MIT grads was acquired by Sweetgreen in a deal that closed in September last year. Its technology is expected to live on in Sweetgreen restaurants.

A WAY TO SPICE UP FOOD PREP AT THEIR LOCAL CAFES. HERE’S ERIKA TARANTAL. ERIKA: THIS AUTOMATED, HIGH-TECH , ROBOTIC RESTAURANT IS VERSION 2.0 FOR SPYCE. GONE ARE THE INDUCTION METAL WOKS, IN FAVOR FOR ...

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Four MIT students who once built a soccer ball-kicking robot got together with a Michelin-starred chef to build a restaurant that's not quite what you're used to. How? Well, it's staffed by robots, ...