US EditionUber Co-Founder Kalanick Launches Atoms in Specialized Robotics Push
Atoms aims to build a robotics platform for food service, mining, and transport, nearing acquisition of Pronto, an autonomous mining vehicle startup founded by Anthony Levandowski.
- On Feb. 21, 2025, Travis Kalanick launched Atoms, renaming City Storage Systems and expanding into food, mining, and transportation with a wheelbase for robots.
- Kalanick said Friday he will fold CloudKitchens into Atoms and is close to acquiring Pronto, the autonomous vehicle startup founded by Anthony Levandowski.
- Nearly 1,700 words on the Atoms website outline the company's mission, noting that 'Gainfully employed robots are the machines best suited for the job at hand, that can make a living doing it', while the site omits Uber despite media reports of its backing.
- The Information reported Kalanick has major backing from Uber and said he wants to roll out self-driving tech more aggressively than Waymo.
- Long ago, Uber built its self-driving division in 2015; the legal history with Google/Waymo and Levandowski's criminal charges and pardon shadow the Pronto acquisition.
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Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick unveiled a robotics company for the food, mining and transport industries after being in stealth mode for eight years. The new company is called Atoms and sprang from his real estate company, City Storage Systems, which owns ghost-kitchen operator CloudKitchens. “The whole idea was can you get a meal that’s prepared and delivered to you so efficiently that it starts to approach the cost of going to the grocery stor…
Uber's co-founder, Travis Kalanick, announced a new company about the development of robots that can work in sectors such as food, mining and transport. The project is born from the reform of the City Storage company, which belongs to Kalanick and controls the operator of "dark kitches", CloudKitchens. The company will become known as Atoms, according to its website publication. To date known as investing in food production and delivery infrastr…
Uber co-founder Kalanick launches Atoms in specialized robotics push
Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and former chief executive of Uber , on Friday launched his startup, Atoms, focused on specialized industrial robotics designed to automate tasks in the mining, transport and food sectors.
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