Niska - Robotic Ice Cream Bar Software Kiosk Development. 

Delivering ice creams with many thousands of possible combinations of flavours and toppings had some unique operational complexities. The project required collaboration between multiple experts in different countries - robotics vendors, specialty robotics fabricators, materials experts, food technologists, health and safety specialists, and with Phosphor developing the software here in New Zealand.

Niska founders Kate Orlova and Anton Morus are optimistic about the future for the the Robotic Ice Cream Bar. Both believe in the power of automation and the benefits they say it will bring for the economy.

Phosphor designed the UX and developed the kiosk software, interfacing with the robots and developing a content management system and a POS system for the kiosk. We installed and tested the software in Melbourne, working closely with Special Patterns Robotics.

Niska founders Kate Orlova and Anton Morus are optimistic about the future for the the Robotic Ice Cream Bar. Both believe in the power of automation and the benefits they say it will bring for the economy.

"We know what and why we are doing this. We saw the positive influence to the world economy and humanity can eventually get rid of routine work, delegating it to the machines and spend more time on more fulfilling occupations."

Niska's pilot Robotic Ice Cream Bar was launched in Melbourne, unfortunately not long before COVID caused months of lockdown. Niska has recently launched in Abu Dhabi in UAE. 

Phosphor won one of 11 annual Umbraco awards for this project