Atoms

In 2017, Travis Kalanick left Uber after a turbulent period and began building City Storage Systems, a company focused on digitizing the physical world. The original vision was to create infrastructure for better food, starting with delivery-first kitchens built for modern restaurants. After eight years of operating in stealth mode, Kalanick rebranded City Storage Systems as Atoms in March 2026, simultaneously expanding the company's focus beyond food to mining and transport industries.

Atoms builds physical automation to transform industry and move the world. Everything in civilization is mined, grown, manufactured, and moved - and Atoms develops the robotics, software, and infrastructure that automate these physical systems. The company operates across three main verticals: Atoms Food (infrastructure for better food), Atoms Mining (more productive mines to power Earth's industries), and Atoms Transport (wheelbase for robots). The company makes what they call 'gainfully employed robots' - specialized robots with productive jobs that bring abundance to their owners and society at large. Through subsidiaries like CloudKitchens, Pronto AI, Lab37, Otter, Picnic, and ProFood, Atoms is creating a new class of computation for the real world - machines that sense, predict, and act in physical environments to make industry more productive, reliable, and scalable.