Chef Robotics Raises $14.75M To Automate Food Assembly in Commercial Kitchens
Jan 26, 2024 - thespoon.tech
Chef Robotics, a company founded by Rajat Bhageria, has exited stealth mode and is now selling its restaurant robot. The company's revenue has doubled between 2022 and 2023, and it has recently raised a new $14.75 million combo debt/equity round of funding. Chef Robotics differentiates itself by focusing on food assembly rather than cooking, and uses its ChefOS software to drive the robot arm's decisions. The company uses various sensors, like cameras, to collect training data and then trains models to help the robot learn how to manipulate a large variety of ingredients.
Bhageria, who spoke at The Spoon’s food robotics conference ArticulATE in 2019, emphasized the importance of better and cheaper computer vision, and the growing power of AI to help power useful robots in food service. He believes that advancements in sensors, computation, cloud computing, and deep neural networks are crucial for the development of food service robots.
Key takeaways:
Chef Robotics, a restaurant robot company, has exited stealth and is selling its robot, with company revenue doubling between 2022 and 2023.
The company has raised a new $14.75 million combo debt/equity round of funding.
Chef Robotics distinguishes itself by focusing on food assembly, rather than cooking specifically, and uses ChefOS, the underlying software driving its robot arm’s decisions.
The company uses various sensors, like cameras, to collect training data and then trains models that help the robot learn how to manipulate a large corpus of ingredients.
