Stories, case studies and lessons from designing and manufacturing custom vending machines, kiosks and PPE lockers — straight from the KioskForce workshop.
The Pokémon Company's US vending fleet hit 1,871 machines across 28 states in 2026 — up 27% year over year — yet it pulled 207 machines while adding 562. The removals are deliberate: fixed MSRP pri...
The medical vending machine market is worth about USD 8.2 billion in 2026, growing roughly 7% a year toward USD 11.5 billion by 2031. The engine underneath it is pharmacy automation. Here is what t...
A vending machine dispenses consumables one way; a smart locker issues and returns reusable items two ways; a kiosk is the self-service interaction point that can be either — or neither. The differ...
Fiji declared HIV a national crisis in September 2026. UNAIDS estimates 61% of the 9,100 people living with HIV there do not know their status. Here is what Australia's self-test channels show, and...
Venture funding for smart retail vending collapsed from a $508M peak in 2017 to $4.76M in 2026 — while the intelligent vending market still grows 18.8% a year toward $53.11B by 2034. The money left...
Microsoft logged a 146% surge in QR-code phishing in Q1 2026 — from 7.6 million incidents in January to 18.7 million in March. On an unattended machine the attack is physical: a sticker over the pa...
