This robot can make 300 pizzas in one hour || There is good news for all the pizza lovers out there. A Seattle-based Robotics startup called Picnic has announced that it has developed a robot that has the ability to make 300 12-inch pizzas per hour and 180 18-inch pizzas per hour.
After three years of hard work on robotic food systems, startup Seattle Picnic is emerging from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with minimal human intervention.
Picnic, formerly known as Otto Robotics and Vivid Robotics, is the latest entrant in a group of startups and industry giants trying to find ways to automate restaurant kitchens in the face of thin margins and labor shortages.
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The company Picnic took to its Twitter account to share a promo video of its smart food assembly platform. Check out the tweets below:
— Picnic (@PicnicNews) October 1, 2022
As soon as a pizza order is placed, a digital queue is formed and the pizza-making robot begins the process as the dough is placed in its place. A vision system is implemented in the robot to make adjustments if the position of the pie is not in the center. All computational data is sent back to Picnic’s servers so the engine learns from its mistakes.
It should be noted that this is not a fully automated system. The preparation of dough, sauce, and baking is still being done by human employees, according to a report from GeekWire.
Picnic can help our existing staff work more efficiently, enabling them to double or triple their customer service load without negatively impacting workflow. Our employees feel it will help them get through a tough time,” said co-founder Aaron Roberts of Zaucer Pizza, one of Picnic’s first customers.
Picnic’s business model is essentially pizza-as-a-service. Restaurant owners pay regular fees in exchange for systems and ongoing maintenance and software and hardware updates. The startup has launched at Centerplate, catering at the Seattle Mariners’ T-Mobile Park ballpark, as well as Zaucer, a restaurant in Redmond, Wash.
