Miso Robotics, a startup based near Pasadena, California, is making the kitchen assistant for CaliBurger. The burger Robot, whose title is “Flippy,” can operate a grill and be processed to cook burgers “perfectly” and “consistently,” Miso states on its site. Slowly, the Robot will master other tasks and take over chopping vegetables and use the fryer.
Miso recently raised $3.1 million in a Series An investment capital round. Patent assistance firm Acacia Research, Match Robotics VC, and CaliBurger have spent in Miso and its kitchen assistant robot.
Flippy, which is provided with Miso’s artificial intelligence and computer vision software, has a robotic arm and a hand-like machinery that closes around a burger and flips the patty. Flippy is crammed with cameras and thermal and 3D sensors that deliver the bot the ability to “see” and track food on the rack and manage the cook time. Once the burger is fully cooked, Flippy removes the burger and puts it on a bun. For the time being, Flippy cannot calculate cheese or toppings to a patty, so the robot will say the human assistant chef to complete the job. Flippy is also equipped with machine learning technology, which involves Flippy will learn new tasks once it masters the burger.
David Zito, CEO at Miso Robotics, says News that the group focused on a robotic fast food chef because these positions have the highest turnover percentages in the industry. Other companies are also holding robotics to reduce costs and reduce worker count, including, Chowbotics, which makes a salad Robot, Frobot, which does a robotic frozen yogurt maker, and Zume Pizza, which uses the Doughbot.
Robots like Flippy could improve restaurants lower costs on human labor, but the effect automation will have on personal employment could be significant. According to a report from the World Economic Forum last year,
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