Lounge Lab, a South Korean robotic and AI firm, has launched a robot-powered ice cream shop, Brown Bana. It will be a co-botic ice cream parlor where robots will fill and move the ice cream cups and human labour would add toppings as per customers’ choice. Customers will be able to communicate with the robots through emotional motion functions. These robots can display emoticons to express human emotions such as greeting, calling, drowsy, etc.

Trigo, an Israel-based Cashierless checkout startup, has received $10M strategic investment funds from Rewe, a German supermarket chain. TechCrunch reported that Trigo has raised $104 million to this point. Trigo’s technology relies on AI, computer vision and cameras to make grocery stores cashierless. The investment came after REWE and Trigo were already working together to create a cashierless checkout store in Cologne, Germany. UK-based grocer Tesco already made an investment in Trigo back in 2019.