Kalanick is rolling his existing ghost kitchen company, CloudKitchens, into Atoms. It's not immediately clear how he plans to tackle mining and transportation. Atoms' website says it will build a 'wheelbase for robots,' and Kalanick said in a live interview with TBPN on Friday that his company will apply this wheelbase to 'specialized robots' ' not humanoids. To support the mining business, Kalanick said Friday that he's on the precipice of acquiring Pronto, the autonomous vehicle startup focused on industrial and mining sites that was created by his former Uber colleague, Anthony Levandowski. Kalanick revealed Friday that he is already the 'largest investor' in Pronto. 'The industrial thing is sort of like, probably, our main jam,' Kalanick told TBPN. Kalanick demurred on the idea of using Atoms robots to move people, at least in the near-term. 'Once you crack movement in the physical world, there's lots of people who want access to that.' Earlier Friday The Information reported...
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