Tag: Automation

Developed in collaboration with robotics firm Vebu Labs, Chipotle is currently testing an automated avocado-prepping robot named Autocado. The robot is capable of peeling, seeding, and halving a case of avocados significantly faster than humans, and the company estimates it could cut its typical 50-minute guacamole prep time in half, just like an avocado!…

Robots can do some pretty amazing things these days. Sure, there are concerns about humans losing their jobs to automation, but you have to remember that there are lots of high-paying jobs created for engineers and roboticists to design, build and program the robots themselves, and many of the jobs robots take on are laborious tasks that can be harmful or stressful to humans anyhow.…

I watch a lot of those tiny house shows with my wife that seem to come on every day on HGTV and other home improvement networks.…

The web has been buzzing about this wonder device for a while now, but I think it’s still worth sharing here on our blog because it will allow you to replicate some of the hacks that we’ve featured.…

If going to Vegas to get hitched isn’t quick enough for you, check out what the AutoWed can do for you. It’s an automatic wedding machine.…

If you’re like me, you’d love some robot to prepare your breakfast, kind of like those crazy machines from Back to the Future. While today’s robots are certainly smarter than Doc Brown’s jury-rigged breakfast maker, you might wonder how good the robot breakfast will be.…

I have always wanted to automate my home, mostly because my entire family is lazy. I am apparently the only one capable of walking across the room and tuning off a light.…