Stories, case studies and lessons from designing and manufacturing custom vending machines, kiosks and PPE lockers — straight from the KioskForce workshop.
A small wall-mounted vending machine is nearly impossible to find off the shelf, and the reason is not demand. It is that a wall-mount machine's useful size is set by the product going into it — a ...
A hot food vending machine is a miniature automated restaurant: it refrigerates a ready-made meal, heats it on demand with microwave, convection, infrared or a hybrid cycle, and dispenses it in abo...
A vending machine's sales report says what sold, not how many people walked past without buying. That missing number is foot traffic, and the usual way to measure it is a camera, which you cannot p...
Robotic vending arms are 2026's spectacle. Rollney Singapore shipped a fully robotic soft-serve machine and plans 100 islandwide. AI coffee kiosks run six-axis arms with ~98% consistency. But a rob...
Grab-and-go computer vision just won the consumer micro market — 365 Retail Markets shipped PicoCooler Vision, Grabot shipped the G620H, and SandStar and WeVend shipped a batch-shopping cooler. Ope...
Vending's center of gravity is shifting out of the office breakroom. Offices and commercial buildings held just 22.18% of the vending market in 2025 (Mordor Intelligence) — the growth is now in apa...
