The Pasadena area, in Californiais fortunate to enjoy the first restaurant served by robots that work with artificial intelligence, in the U.S. Is called CaliExpress and it is a collaboration of several companies that joined forces to automate one of the most common jobs in the food area: the preparation of hamburgers.
Everything you are going to eat in this restaurant is made by artificial intelligence. The only participation of a person is in assembling the orders in the containers where the food is served.
The menu at CaliExpress by Flippy, located at 561 East Green Street in Pasadena, is very simple: It only serves burgers and fries. There are two versions: cheeseburgers or plain burgers. You can choose the term of the meat, while you place your order, which is clearly done through a screen.
This project is led by a company called Miso Robotics, which is the creator of the first robotic frying station, called Flippy, and another company called PopID, which is dedicated to designing biometric developments for payment systems, according to a review The opinion.
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“AI-powered robotic order taking and cooking enable major chains feeding America to substantially improve quality, consistency and speed,” said Rich Hull, CEO of Miso Robotics.
“To our knowledge, this is the first operating restaurant in the world where both ordering and every cooking process are completely automated,” added PopID CEO John Miller.
As shown in the video below, those who go to CaliExpress have the opportunity to watch how a robotic arm prepares the burger they ordered through a digital service.