Travis Kalanick Debuts Plan for ‘Gainfully Employed Robots’ (2)

Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick has launched a new venture that will focus on creating “gainfully employed robots” for the food, mining and transport industries.

Kalanick is remaking his real estate company, City Storage Systems, which owns ghost-kitchen operator CloudKitchens, and renaming it Atoms, according to a manifesto posted on the new company’s website. In addition to its work on food, Los Angeles-based Atoms is expanding into robotics technology for mining and automotive transport.

Kalanick said on the livestreamed tech talk show TBPN Friday that Atoms has effectively been in stealth for eight years and has “thousands” of ...