Flippy, robot that grills burgers, is being rolled out in more than 50 CaliBurger restaurants worldwide

Briefing

Flippy, robot that grills burgers, is being rolled out in more than 50 CaliBurger restaurants worldwide

April 25, 2017

Briefing

  • Robotic Kitchen Assistant Rollout – Miso Robotics and Cali Group rolling out robotics kitchen assistant “Flippy” to more than 50 CaliBurger restaurants worldwide by end of 2019, after pilot testing in Pasadena, California branch
  • Kitchen Functions – Grills and flips burgers, tracks temperature and cook time, and passes cooked burgers to humans to apply toppings
  • Physical Hardware – Equipped with 6-axis robotic arm, enabling it to move forward/backward, up/down, and left/right, plus thermal sensors, 3D sensors and onboard cameras to sense environment
  • Artificial Intelligence-Driven – Continuously learns and can be trained to perform different tasks, such as frying chicken, cutting vegetables and plating
  • Benefits – Makes food production faster, safer and more accurate
  • Overall Vision – Create unified operating system that will control all aspects of restaurant operations, including in-store entertainment, automated ordering and cooking, food delivery, and real-time monitoring of errors and disease-causing pathogens

Accelerator

Sector

Information Technology

Organization

Cali Group, Miso Robotics

Source

Original Publication Date

March 7, 2017

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