Two established Seattle startups partner to create profitable, end-to-end solutions for kitchens using mobile ordering, automated food production, and self-service pickup solutions Picnic Works, a Seattle-based developer of kitchen automation technology, today announced a partnership with Minnow Technologies, a neighbouring Seattle IoT startup that has developed the Pickup Pod™, a self-service pickup solution for foodservice operators.  The partnership leverages the expertise of both … [Read more...] about Picnic & Minnow Partner to Offer Automated Solutions for Food Service

Data scientists and agricultural researchers will make their way to Shanghai this year to test their lettuce-growing skills in Pinduoduo’s Smart Agriculture Competition. Now in its third edition, participants in the annual precision farming competition will be putting their computing algorithms and agronomy skills to work cultivating lettuce inside shipping containers in a vertical farming challenge. Vertical farming is a form of controlled environment agriculture that uses hydroponics and … [Read more...] about Pinduoduo launches 3rd Smart Agriculture Competition