Automation isn’t about replacing labor—it’s about helping you meet demand and scale with the resources you have. Many food manufacturers are facing a big challenge: they have more demand than they can handle, but not enough labor to run at full capacity. If you’ve got 10 production lines but only enough staff to run 8, that’s revenue being left on the table. With Chef Robotics, you can automate those additional lines, meet demand, increase throughput, and scale your operations without needing extra labor. Check out the full interview on Youtube - https://lnkd.in/gsMTzkbm #automation #foodtechnology #foodautomation #foodproduction #robotics #robots #ai #artificialintelligence #computervision #machinelearning #chefrobotics
Chef Robotics
Software Development
San Francisco, CA 16,858 followers
Chef’s mission is to empower humans by accelerating the advent of intelligent machines in the world
About us
At Chef we believe that AI’s biggest impact will be on the physical world, representing 90% of Global GDP. In the food industry, for example, in 2023 there were 1,137,000 jobs unfilled in food preparation and service (Bureau for Labor Statistics). These growing labor shortages are forcing food companies to leave millions of dollars on the table every year in unmet demand. As this pain becomes more acute, food companies are more aggressively seeking out alternatives, including off-shoring more and more parts of the food supply chain to other countries where there is more labor available; this of course comes with its own significant risks for the US. Chef Robotics offers a new way for food companies to overcome their labor shortage and increase production volume using AI-enabled robots that mimic the flexibility of humans. Chef allows companies to maximize revenue by meeting demand, while keeping the American food supply chain onshore. Chef's mission is to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the world to empower humans to do what humans do best.
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http://chefrobotics.ai
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- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2019
- Specialties
- robotics, autonomous robots, automation, manufacturing, machine learning, computer vision, Robotics as a Service, food robotics, food automation, Embodied AI, Physical AI, AI enabled Robotics, food manufacturing automation, and intelligent robots
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986 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103, US
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Scaling AI-enabled robotics is hard. Having the right to team to do it with makes all the difference! We're proud to have built a team that consists of some of the most talented people in the industry.
While most of the Chef team is in the office full time, it's a special occasion when all of our in-field team members (deploying robots and ensuring our current customers are successful with robots) get to join us on the same day. At Chef, we've built a world-class team of roboticists and professionals committed to our mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the world come to life. And we have fun while doing it! We're hiring for several roles right now! If you're excited about the prospect of deploying thousands of robots into production today - not ten to twenty years down the line - we'd love to chat! https://lnkd.in/gQEewd4C
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Intelligent automation is the future of the food industry. This article from A3 - Association for Advancing Automation does a great job of outlining the current state of food automation, and why it falls short. Status quo ingredient delivery tools like depositors and gravity dispensers can only go so far--when other factors like tray placement and orientation aren't perfectly controlled, these tools can't adapt to accommodate the variance. This is why AI-enabled robotics are revolutionary to the food industry. Chef's robots use AI and computer vision to react to the space around them, so that if a tray is oriented differently or is not placed at all, the system will recognize this and adapt it's ingredient placement action accordingly. Check out the article here: https://lnkd.in/g-7X4iq2
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Hear from Chef Robotics’ CEO on why traditional automation is falling short in the food industry. While fixed automation can handle narrow tasks, Rajat Bhageria points out that existing food assembly systems on the market struggle with high SKU mix and frequent changeovers. Chef’s AI-enabled systems are built for flexibility, adapting to ever-changing food components like a person would—but with the consistency and reliability of a machine. Check out the full interview on Youtube - https://lnkd.in/gCJEu3n3 #automation #foodtechnology #foodautomation #foodproduction #robotics #robots #ai #artificialintelligence #computervision #machinelearning #chefrobotics
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SF TECH WEEK by a16z is quickly approaching! We’re just two weeks out from our event at Chef headquarters. Join us for a special happy hour that will include a presentation on deploying and scaling AI-enabled robots from our founder Rajat Bhageria, followed by a live demo showing how our robots use AI to assemble meals. Spots are filling up fast, but we still have a handful left! RSVP at https://lnkd.in/gi-7Z-NH?
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We're hosting a webinar next week! 📚 Join us on Thursday 9/26 as we discuss the types of customers that Chef systems work at, the kinds of ingredients our robots can work with, and how Chef can add value to production. After the initial presentation, there will be time allotted for a Q&A session. The information covered in this webinar will be valuable to food manufacturers, frozen and prepared meal brands, co-packers, food service providers, and airline catering companies.
Intro to Chef Robotics: AI-Driven Automation for Food Assembly
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Interested to learn more about Chef's capabilities? Join us this Thursday for an introduction to Chef, hosted by Chef leaders themselves! We'll share more about how our AI-enabled robots are automating the meal assembly process, with time for questions at the end.
We're hosting a webinar next week! 📚 Join us on Thursday 9/26 as we discuss the types of customers that Chef systems work at, the kinds of ingredients our robots can work with, and how Chef can add value to production. After the initial presentation, there will be time allotted for a Q&A session. The information covered in this webinar will be valuable to food manufacturers, frozen and prepared meal brands, co-packers, food service providers, and airline catering companies.
Intro to Chef Robotics: AI-Driven Automation for Food Assembly
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Welcome to the team Ryan! With your help we're excited deploy to thousands of robots in production around the world!
I’m happy to share I’m starting a new position as Applications Engineering Manager at Chef Robotics I’m excited about Chef's technology that is transforming advancements in robotics across the food industry.
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Interested to learn more about Chef's capabilities? Join us this Thursday for an introduction to Chef, hosted by Chef leaders themselves! We'll share more about how our AI-enabled robots are automating the meal assembly process, with time for questions at the end.
We're hosting a webinar next week! 📚 Join us on Thursday 9/26 as we discuss the types of customers that Chef systems work at, the kinds of ingredients our robots can work with, and how Chef can add value to production. After the initial presentation, there will be time allotted for a Q&A session. The information covered in this webinar will be valuable to food manufacturers, frozen and prepared meal brands, co-packers, food service providers, and airline catering companies.
Intro to Chef Robotics: AI-Driven Automation for Food Assembly
www.linkedin.com
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Placement QA is here! Our latest feature release will provide food companies with unprecedented access to meal imagery data, and enable quality assurance teams to complete computational QA on all assembled meals.
Today, Chef Robotics is releasing its newest feature: Placement QA! Placement QA utilizes computer vision to track capture un-occluded images before and after food is plated within them. This means that food companies can now retain imagery data on every meal assembled by Chef (and down the line by humans) in their facilities, providing them with meal level data that they've never had before. Placement QA will help customers to reduce missed deposits and increase quality, ultimately increasing lifetime value of customers and reducing churn. The feature will be hugely beneficial to quality control teams as it gives them the ability to complete computational QA for every meal produced. Check out the blog we put out on the feature, and the story covering Placement QA from Robotics 24/7! Link to both in the comments.
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