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Travis Kalanick Unveils Atoms, Rebranding His Venture Into Industrial Robotics for Food, Mining and Transport

The rebrand folds CloudKitchens into a robotics push centered on a modular wheelbase for industrial machines.

Overview

  • City Storage Systems is now Atoms, with CloudKitchens integrated into the combined company.
  • Atoms is organizing into three units: Atoms Food, Atoms Mining and Atoms Transport.
  • Kalanick says Atoms will build a modular “wheelbase for robots” to power specialized, task‑specific machines rather than humanoids, aiming for “gainfully employed” robots.
  • He said he is the largest investor in Pronto and is close to acquiring the autonomous mining startup founded by Anthony Levandowski.
  • Reports of potential Uber backing remain unconfirmed, and Kalanick emphasized industrial use cases over moving people in the near term.