Chef Robotics
Chef Robotics launched what is said to be a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI)-powered flexible food robot to help food companies overcome the global food labor shortage and increase production volume.
"Nobody has scaled intelligent robots at a massive scale. Just as Tesla ushered in the EV revolution, so too are we posed to help usher in the intelligent robotics revolution," says founder Rajat Bhageria.
Key takeaways:
- To solve the labor shortage, Chef is leveraging mostly off-the-shelf hardware and combining it with modern AI advancements to make it flexible enough to provide labor supply in the form of robotic automation. The robot operates using Chef's original food manipulation software, ChefOS.
- Chef's go-to-market is food manufacturing where Chef can partially automate a food operation without requiring 100% full autonomy from the get-go. This enables Chef engineers to train ChefOS on real-world data accumulated from robots deployed at customer production sites in 6 cities across North America. To date, Chef has already completed over 20 million servings in production.
