ChefRobotics Introduces AI Robotic Arm System for Food Preparation

TapTechNews July 20th news, according to the report of MIT Technology Review today, the San Francisco-based startup ChefRobotics has launched a AI robotic arm system, which can be programmed quickly through recipes and can achieve precise proportion of ingredients and sauces.

The company claims that its robots have proven their value and are being promoted on a large scale to more production facilities, and customers in the United States, Canada and other places are interested in this robot.

Although most of the prepared dishes in current supermarkets or fast-food restaurants, trains or airplanes have achieved automated production, but some ingredients are still difficult to be precisely sorted and packaged by robotic arms (TapTechNews note: such as rice, shredded cheese, peas, etc.), which means that most of the prepared dishes of well-known brands are still manually packaged.

David Griggs, senior engineering director of the local food and beverage brand Amy's Kitchen that completed the pilot project with ChefRobotics, said that the progress of AI has changed the rules of the game, and robots can become more useful on the production line. Robots that can now be deployed on the production line can learn the difference between scooping peas and scooping cauliflower and improve the accuracy of the next food preparation. It's amazing that these robots can adapt to all the different types of ingredients we use.

Griggs believes that robots will handle more and more food sorting and proportioning processes. I have a vision that the only thing people have to do is run these robot systems. But this robot has brought a new challenge to the company: it is still necessary to maintain the appearance of hand-packed food while handing it over to the robot for packaging.

According to Rajat Bhageria, the CEO of ChefRobotics, the annual cost of this single-arm robot system is usually no more than 135,000 US dollars.