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Travis Kalanick Announces $1.7 Billion Raise for Adams
“I announced earlier today we did a 1.7 billion dollar raise.”
Kalanick Consolidated Mining, Transport, and Food AI Ventures into One Holding
“So then what we did is we put the companies together and then sold the equity in a singular entity.”
Kalanick: Adams Automates 2-Million-Pound Machines Rather Than Building Apps
“This is why the Adams thing is cool. Because you're not dropping a fucking app in the app store. You're like, automating a two million pound machine going 35 miles an hour carrying gold.”
Kalanick: Adams is inches from closing an acquisition of Pronto
“And we acquired a company on the mining stuff, a company called Pronto. Or it's about to close. It's where we're inches from closing is the way to put it.”
City Storage Systems Emerges From Stealth Mode and Rebrands as Atoms
“Today we sort of came out and we renamed the company. We renamed what we do. We call it Adams.”
Atoms Operates Physical Kitchen Facilities Housing 30 Restaurants Each
“So right now I have these facilities. There's 30 restaurants in each of them.”
Competing With Atoms Requires Buying $100M of Real Estate Per City
“So like, if you want to compete with us, go buy a hundred million dollars of real estate in every major city in the world. And then we're going to go head to head.”
Grocery-Priced Meal Delivery Requires Automated Food Production and Delivery
“A meal that's efficient, you know, so efficient it starts to approach the cost of going to the grocery store. A meal that's prepared and delivered to you. That's real. You must do automated production of food. You must do automated delivery of the meal.”
Atoms Is Expanding Beyond Food Into Industrial Mining and Transport
“We're still doing the food thing, but then we're adding mining and transport.”
Specialized Wheeled Robots Vastly Outperform Humanoids in Industrial Applications
“Because if you're gonna do specialized robots, not humanoids, but specialized robots, They need to have wheels. Right? I like to say, like, if you saw the Beijing, in Beijing, they had the humanoid Olympics. And the half marathon, and you're watching the human…”
Ex-Uber ATG Head Eric Meyhofer Runs Atoms Robotics Unit Lab 37
“My head of the advanced technology group at Uber is running my robotics division at Adams. It's called lab 37 in Pittsburgh. No, no, that's Eric, my offer.”
Atoms Is Finalizing an Acquisition of Autonomous Vehicle Startup Pronto
“I was the largest investor in pronto. And then we just were basically right in the final, like, We're checking off the list, maybe closing today or tomorrow on that deal.”
Atoms Built a Fully Operational Restaurant to Deploy Its First Food Robot
“So my roboticist team in Pittsburgh made a restaurant that is the restaurant that our first robot went into because we had to make sure that we understood how a restaurant worked. We had to make sure that this wasn't just a machine that made food, but a machin…”