Stories, case studies and lessons from designing and manufacturing custom vending machines, kiosks and PPE lockers — straight from the KioskForce workshop.
The smart parcel locker market is roughly USD 1.4–1.55 billion in 2026, compounding at 11–12% a year toward USD 4.4 billion by 2035 — and Asia Pacific is the fastest-growing region at about 27% of ...
Most 'AI vending machines' sold in 2026 are not artificial intelligence — they are a connected machine with telemetry wearing an AI label. The honest test is one number: daily visitors. Above rough...
The EU opened its Digital Product Passport registry on 20 July 2026, and the first mandatory passports land on batteries from 18 February 2027. Vending machines are not in the first wave — they fol...
Australia runs 4.7 vending machines per 1,000 people against Japan's 31.5 — a 6.7× density gap, or one machine for every 213 Australians versus one for every 32 Japanese. That is not a weak market;...
W.W. Grainger paid $210 million for Adroit Worldwide Media's computer-vision inventory technology in August 2026. It didn't buy vending machines. It bought the layer that tracks who took what — the...
Amazon discontinued its Amazon One palm-payment system in January 2026, removing every palm reader by 3 June and citing low adoption. Biometric checkout in unattended retail is not dead — it is spl...
