Jay Shah is a Lead Hardware Engineer at Caldo, specializing in robotics, automation and sustainable food technology. In the race to automate the commercial kitchen, robotics engineers face a uniquely ...

Meet Flippy. Starting in 2021, this tireless fry-station specialist toiled in 10 Chicago-area locations of White Castle, America’s first fast-food hamburger chain. Working behind a protective shield ...

Walking into your favorite restaurant and seeing a robot chef in the kitchen may seem far-fetched, but new research suggests that bots could be a solution to persistent labor shortages in the industry ...

Restaurants are increasingly using robots to handle mundane human tasks amid rising labor costs. Chipotle, White Castle, and Sweetgreen are using robots to prepare salads, fries, and chips. A fully ...

When he was a boy in Hong Kong, Kenny Poon loved to watch Japanese cartoons, and remembers being transfixed by a scene of a restaurant kitchen staffed by robots. “I said, ‘I’m going to open a kitchen ...

Quickly grabbing a coffee from a vending machine is undeniably an important skill to be picked up by students. But if Hamburg-based food-tech start-up Circus has its way, this knowledge be greatly ...