Big news! Provided you're old enough to know it had ever left. What's an automat? For anyone born after 1991 — when the last one in New York closed its doors — the automat was a kind of ...

Today’s news that Best Buy is to put vending machines into airports got me thinking about these automated, mechanical stores. Vending machines can be incredibly useful if they are put in the right ...

Decades from now, historians may look back on 2016 as the year Earthlings ate pizza from vending machines, bought burritos from a box in New York’s Grand Central Terminal and devoured sushi rolled by ...

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sweet Robo, the company redefining automated retail through robotics and delight, will debut ChocoPrint™, its first-ever 3D chocolate printer, at CES 2026. The ...

A man collects his order from an automatic pizza vending machine in downtown Rome, Italy, on May 4, 2021. The vending machine is capable of kneading, seasoning, cooking and delivering the pizza in a ...

If the portobello-and-goat-cheese sandwich doesn't drop at the Redbox vending machines that McDonald's has sprinkled around the Washington area, shaking the box isn't possible, and shooting it won't ...

Beltline Bagel Automat + Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies! March 13 — It’s Thursday, friends! For today’s Side Dish, we’re offering two recipes, including one for carrot cake whoopie pies! We also have a ...

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Decades from now, historians may look back on 2016 as the year Earthlings ate pizza from vending machines, bought burritos from a box in New York’s Grand Central Terminal and devoured sushi rolled by ...