Chef's first-of-its-kind food manipulation AI
model equips its robots with the flexibility needed to meet the
demands of modern high-mix food production
SAN
FRANCISCO, July 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Chef
Robotics is launching a first-of-its-kind AI-powered flexible food
robot made to help food companies overcome the global food labor
shortage and increase production volume.
"We increased our capacity by just adding
four Chef robots by just over 20%." ~ Chef Bombay President,
Noorudin Jiwani
AI will have an immense impact on our world as the rise of
foundational models like ChatGPT has shown. But the greatest impact
will be on the physical world in the form of Embodied AI through
robotics, given the physical world represents 90% of global GDP and
the manual labor market accounts for half of all global GDP.
With 1,137,000 unfilled jobs and an annual staff turnover rate
of 150%+, the American industry most in need of AI-enabled robotics
is the food industry. While traditional automation exists in the
food industry, until now, robots have only been built to automate
one specific task each. They're not flexible enough to deal with
the variety fundamental to making meals.
To solve this, Chef is leveraging mostly off-the-shelf hardware
and combining it with modern advancements in AI to make it flexible
enough to provide labor supply in the form of robotic automation to
help food companies overcome their labor shortage. The robot
operates using Chef's original food manipulation software,
ChefOS.
Notably, unlike other food robotics startups, Chef's
go-to-market is food manufacturing (not restaurants) where Chef can
partially automate a food operation and thus add value in
production to customers 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.
With every meal the robots assemble in production facilities,
Chef's core AI models for food manipulation improve. The robots
essentially act as data ingestion engines to train Chef's AI models
to better adapt to variances in food and plate almost any
ingredient, of any portion size, in any container over time.
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As the AI that powers Chef's robots becomes more and more
autonomous, Chef plans to leverage these systems to go from
applications like industrial food production to ghost kitchens and
ultimately, to deploying AI-enabled robots in every commercial
kitchen in the country.
Today, Chef's AI-enabled robots are actively generating ROI for
the food industry's leading manufacturers. Notable public customers
that Chef has case studies with include:
- Amy's Kitchen
- Sunbasket
- Chef Bombay
For example, Chef helped Chef Bombay reduce standard deviation
by 30%, reduce food giveaway/wastage by 88%, increase labor
productivity by 33%, and increase throughput by 9%.
Videos of Chef Robots in Action
Says Founder Rajat Bhageria,
"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."
About Chef Robotics
Chef is the first company to have
commercialized a scalable AI-driven food robotics solution. With
over 20 million meals made in production, Chef leverages ChefOS, an
AI platform for food manipulation, to offer a recurring revenue
solution that helps industry-leading food companies increase
production volume and meet demand. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Chef aims to empower humans
to do what humans do best by accelerating the advent of intelligent
machines.
Media Contacts
Rajat Bhageria
rajat@chefrobotics.ai
Sarah Mowad
sarah@chefrobotics.ai
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