It’s long since been the vision of Hollywood that robots and humans would be side-by-side. In some Hollywood films, this partnership is a recipe for catastrophe, but in this suburb not far from Tinseltown, AI and robots are working in a restaurant kitchen.
The restaurant, called CaliExpress, can be found in the heart of Pasadena, California. It’s the first time that so much technology has been in one place, according to business owner Vic Aulakh.
The burger joint uses a grill robot by Cucina and “Flippy,” a robot from Miso Robotics that can handle frying. Both robots can make quite a lot of food: Flippy can make 250 pounds of French fries an hour, and the grill robot can cook about 100 patties in that time. Neither machine needs a break or a day off.
