Stories, case studies and lessons from designing and manufacturing custom vending machines, kiosks and PPE lockers — straight from the KioskForce workshop.
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...
Roughly 500,000 warehouse jobs sit unfilled in the US, and the labor shortage is now the pressure behind most automation decisions (Exotec). Industrial vending is the response — the industrial vend...
170 million Brazilians use PIX — 93% of the adult population — and 60 million of them have no credit card. A vending machine that only takes card terminals cannot sell to a third of the country. PI...
Smart coolers went mainstream in 2026: more than half of US unattended-retail operators now run them and nearly a third call them a primary format, as industry revenue topped $40 billion (Vending M...
